[wp-docs] Feedback request - WordPress Help Manual platform

[Marc Beneteau]

Jane,

yes you are right, perhaps this is not the right forum for this type of
request

You are also right that I believe that Winhelp / Javahelp is the best
documentation platform, and that I am very stubborn about this.  99% of
commercial software vendors agree with me as do the hundreds of people who
have bought into my platform.  I also get excited at the idea of
context-sensitive help inside WordPress dashboard, call me weird

I may pursue resources you suggest but to be quite frank it's unlikely to
happen without institutional support since I have my own platform that
fills my needs already.  My request was for a project manager, if I could
get that we could likely get things started (and btw there was never any
question of paid development, any technical school or university would be
happy to lend student support to such a venture, but someone still needs to
initiate it)

I also like very much http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ if that is a real option
let's do it.  It can always be converted to Winhelp later when you all see
the light ;), and/or when the platform is ready for prime-time.

I am trying to play with y'all, help me out will you

marc



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:

>
> I just went back and reread the past couple of weeks of emails from/to you
> on this list, and can see that others have directed you to the areas where
> contribution is needed currently, and/or wished you luck for trying the
> project on your own since we just aren't really interested in taking on as
> an official thing. It seems like you are sticking hard and fast to the idea
> that your version of documentation is better, and that's the only way you
> want to work on it.
>
> If you want to contribute content to wordpress.org, great, it can go into
> the codex or the nascent handbook easy as pie. If you want to start a new
> project around your theme/plugin combo for your preferred style of help
> display, that's also great, but not something this list can facilitate, if
> no one has volunteered so far. You would be better off seeking
> collaborators on the wp-hackers list, at your local wp meetup group, or in
> the #wordpress IRC channel, where there might be a coder interested in
> working on it. This is not something Automattic or the Foundation would
> hire someone to work on for you. The project leadership has endorsed the
> work being done on codex and handbooks, and that's where our focus is for
> now.
> Thanks, Jane
>
>
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