[Owncloud] Suggestion: general help framework

[Thomas Müller]

Am Montag, dem 10.09.2012 um 15:46 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
> On 10.09.2012, at 15:38, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Am Montag, dem 10.09.2012 um 15:01 schrieb Thomas Tanghus:
> >> On Monday 10 September 2012 11:22 Christian Reiner wrote:
> >>> Ok, this is my suggestion. 
> >>> Any comments?
> >> 
> >> I think it is an excellent idea. Apparently I didn't notice your original 
> >> proposal.
> >> 
> >> Currently we have the knowledgebase under settings/help.php which also offers 
> >> a few links to documentation, but AFAIRC it is very unstructured (it couldn't 
> >> connect via OCSClient so I can't say how it looks now).
> >> 
> >> We should have a reliable service that could be queried for up-to-date info to 
> >> be provided either as context sensitive help (bubble/popup) and for more 
> >> general help, as the welcome page you mentioned.
> >> 
> >> Maybe we could simply store it in a git repository as 
> >> markdown/text/wiki/whatever.
> >> 
> > 
> > Just FYI:
> > we have a topic on the dev meeting in Berlin about this:
> > http://owncloud.org/dev/planned-topics-for-developer-meeting-autumn-2012/
> > 
> > - Community Interaction / mailing list / forum / deciding on one help platform
> > 
> > Let's summarize all ideas and discuss them in Berlin.
> 
> In general I agree. But let´d not postpone everything to the meeting. We already have more topics tan we can discuss and not everybody is in Berlin.
> 
> Plus I think that a help framework as discussed is useful independently from the mailing-list / forum / online help discussion.
> 

>From my understanding this is for sure belongs to this topic.
In addition we need to keep them all updated and in sync and I don't see who can maintain this.

(We already lack on devs (e.g. Gallery is not maintained for weeks) - postings on ML stay unanswered...)

Before starting something new we need to the the current situation sorted out.
We agreed to discuss this in Berlin.

As stated above: let's collect ideas.

> 
> So if someone has an idea how to do this and is motivated to implement it than I see no point in postponing this. :-)
> 
> Frank