[josm-dev] Please invest some time into documentation - especially confilict resolution

[Rolf Bode-Meyer]

2009/10/4 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>:

>> So please would those people who implemented conflict handling give
>> detailed explanations in [[Help/Dialog/Conflict]] which currently is
>> simply not helpful?
>
> You really need no programmer to write documentation.
>
> A good way to reach that goal would be to start writing that documentation
> and ask the developers to fix or continue wrong or missing parts only.

For JOSM I think most processes or dialogues are quite simple and
comprehensible. So only a few people need documentation and nobody
writes it.
Especially for the conflict stuff I think it really is needed and I'd
write that documentation - but I'm lost as many else seem to be here.
So assuming the one who developed it knows best how it works, I think
at least this time it's a job for a developer.

And having written some applications myself I find it helpful to
express my thoughts in words to endusers to find flaws in those
thoughts. Maybe this is only me, but at least for complex topics
everyone should give it a try.

Rolf