[Potlatch-dev] Some additions to Potlatch 2's map_features.xml

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have now committed. I added power=* too. A momentous occasion, this
> might be my first ever open-source project commit.*

Good stuff! Let it be the first of many!

>> If anyone has some time* to write some more developer docs that would
>> be great. It's been said before that you can develop all the
>> map_features.xml and potlatch.css stuff without needing to have a
>> compile environment (just by grabbing a flash binary and running your
>> own html page) but things like that I think aren't really well
>> explained.
>
> This is something I can do (I was once a tech writer). If you give me
> a bullet point outline, any existing source docs, and the format you
> want it in (just an HTML page?), I'll have a stab.

It would be best on the wiki. There's a reasonable bit at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2/Deploying_Potlatch_2 ,
but the descriptions of how to go about actually customising potlatch2
(which is pretty much identical subject-matter to what you've been
doing) is fairly scant.

The documentation on getting stuck into coding is pretty scant to -
while there's technically everything you need to know in the Readme
that you get from svn, I know lots of people have struggled with
getting to the point where they can compile the .swf . I think it's
worth being clear that there's a lot of development you can do without
getting that far though, in the same way as when I got started I
clarified that you didn't actually need a full rails_port install to
go with it!

Any improvements to the developer documentation is very much welcome.

Cheers,
Andy