Hi Marc,<div><br></div><div>Again, I invite you to join us on the <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/support/editor-access/">User Manual project</a>; I don't think any of us working on docs currently believe that it is a perfect system (and we debate it pretty frequently) but it is at least a place to start. Currently new users have <i>nothing to turn</i> to from WordPress.org and that is a gap we're all trying to bridge. </div>
<div><br></div><div>You may not agree with it as it stands now, but our aim is to release early and often, and refine as we go. Who knows where we'll be when we get to version 2 and beyond, but for now any help is appreciated, and would place you at the heart of discussions as to how to make it better as we move forward.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That or work on a plugin; you're getting a lot of encouragement here to explore that route as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck,</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jane Wells <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jane@automattic.com" target="_blank">jane@automattic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 10/5/12 11:42 AM, Marc Beneteau
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Sorry
Jane I am now confused.<span>
</span>"that is what the support group is working on </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/" target="_blank">http://svnbook.red-bean.com/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">"…
you
mean the Codex people (this list)?<span> </span>Or
is this a separate group?<span> </span>I want to be
invited to that.</span></p>
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There's no special invitation, you just start contributing. The
group is at <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/support" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/support</a>. That includes both
support forums and documentation. The Codex is the existing
documentation. The handbooks are the new documentation project they
are working on there. Review the history on the blog there for more
information. This list (along with the forums list) is
semi-deprecated in favor of the blog, which is more accessible to
potential contributors. <br><div class="im">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> I
have stuff to contribute but I am not very interested in
working on a
legacy platform, I hope that's clear now, </span></p>
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It's been clear from your first email, as has been our disinterest
in pursuing the windows-style platform you prefer.<div class="im"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">and
also I disagree with you "</span><span> the SVN book
is just HTML</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
", the
organization of the topics is crucial, </span></p>
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Yes, but the organization of topics is CONTENT, not PLATFORM.<div class="im"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">and
also the decision of whether this is
going to context-sensitive help inside the dashboard</span></p>
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Documentation and core ux are two different things. Changing the way
help is treated in the dashboard would go through the core team.
Nacin is the release lead, and 3.5 is already in beta, so
suggestions for new features will probably be taken in January at
the beginning of the 3.6 cycle. But again, there is nothing stopping
you from making a plugin that does things exactly the way you want
them, and releasing that. If someone who hasn't contributed to core
before wants to make suggestions to change the core ux/ui, having a
publicly released plugin that does what is being suggested will get
more attention than someone just coming in cold and saying "I think
you should do x". <br>
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