[Interest] User comments on web pages?

[Jason H]

> Op 12/01/2016 om 16:17 schreef Gian Maxera:
> >> On 12 Jan 2016, at 15:11, André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> Op 12/01/2016 om 15:57 schreef Jason H:
> >>> There are a few things I'd like to add to the documentation, but the barrier to entry is too high.
> >>> I'm wondering if we could allow comments by users (or those with bugreports account, or has an an account and is authorized) to be able to comment on the online help? I found the PHP comments helpful, when they were not completely off-base (let's face it, it's PHP :-))
> >>>
> >>> It would also be cool is QtCreator could fetch these (assuming it ends up happening)
> >> This functionality used to exist, but it was scrapped when the move to the new website happened. There was lots of valuable contents there, and I know I for one was quite pissed off that my contributions there were no longer available. So, it is unfortunate, but don't count on this happening any time soon.
> > I use a lot Qt Assistant … so, never knew such comments were on the old website.
> >
> > I really like the idea to see the comments on Qt Assistant … I hope in the future there will be a way to see user’s comments directly into Qt Assistant… but it’s not easy. How can you manage multi-languages ?
> >
> >
> I filed a feature request for that a couple of years ago too (I also 
> prefer the offline documentation), but as the web version got scrapped, 
> I believe this request also got closed.
> 
> For handling multi-languages: you don't. The Qt documentation is in 
> English, just as the API itself. Why would you support comments in other 
> languages? If people can read the documentation to begin with, they can 
> also read comments in English.


Not exactly correct. See top of: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Coding_Style