[Kdenlive-devel] Kdenlive user manual

[Dan Dennedy]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Simon Eugster <simon.eu at gmail.com> wrote:
> To sum up the facts about the user manual. The possibilities we've
> looked at so far are:
>
> = KDE userbase. =
> Lacks subpages at the moment, seems to provide few features only, but
> could be used for producing the installed help.
> However we don't have an installed help anyway at the moment, just a
> link to the drupal page.

I kinda vote for this, and to request to be added to
http://kde.org/applications/multimedia/

I think installed help provides polish and mitigates frustration when
someone is struggling and looks to there for some guidance. Also, this
route helps to become a stronger member of the KDE family, and
hopefully gain more contributors to translations and documentation.

What is meant by sub-pages again? What I see here to me looks like sub-pages:
http://userbase.kde.org/KWord/1.5/Manual

> = Drupal on kdenlive.org =
> Easy to translate, forces identical structure for all languages.
> Existing but outdated. English only, as far as I've seen.
> Overview over chapters perhaps not ideal.
>
> = wikibooks.org =
> Outdated English manual already present. New Czech manual available.
> de, fr, pt outdated as well. Italian seems more up-to-date.
> Would perhaps provide a broader user base (since Single Sign-On was
> introduced for wikimedia projects, and the wikimedia projects are
> bigger than the kde userbase, so users might rather register here than
> on userbase).

On the other hand, this is most popular. Whatever the reason, it votes
for itself in a totally natural manner. Perhaps we can even consider
the vote already-taken or the developers out-voted if each manual
counts as 2 votes (due to gravity effect).

> As the 0.7.8 release is near, I'd like us to decide what we're going
> to use, so we could do that together with the release, making the User
> manual more public and hopefully gaining some editors. Because we
> cannot do it all alone ;)

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