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However, there is often tons of useful information hidden in the archives (devel list, forum, issue tracker etc). People unfamiliar with FlightGear may however have a difficult time locating/filtering and identifying such information in a timely fashion, so that features seem basically undocumented to novice users. | However, there is often tons of useful information hidden in the archives (devel list, forum, issue tracker etc). People unfamiliar with FlightGear may however have a difficult time locating/filtering and identifying such information in a timely fashion, so that features seem basically undocumented to novice users. | ||
Unfortunately, that even applies to long-term development/issues, i.e. those that are known to affect FlightGear in terms of architectural/design challenges. | |||
The Instant-Cquotes script is intended to help with this. It also allows people to easily reuse forum or mailing list announcements in wiki articles, e.g., to update the [[Next Changelog|changelog]], [[Next newsletter|newsletter]] or the [[Release plan/Lessons learned]] page, but also to bootstrap new articles/documentation, until a dedicated rewrite/article is finished. | The Instant-Cquotes script is intended to help with this. It also allows people to easily reuse forum or mailing list announcements in wiki articles, e.g., to update the [[Next Changelog|changelog]], [[Next newsletter|newsletter]] or the [[Release plan/Lessons learned]] page, but also to bootstrap new articles/documentation, until a dedicated rewrite/article is finished. | ||