Re: [Flightgear-devel] After the release is before the next release...

[Stuart B. <stu...@gm...>]

Hi Thorsten,

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Thorsten Renk wrote:
> I don't have any mandate for that, but I think I'll simply take initiative
> on that one:
>
> If we want to name the next release after a different airport, we should
> decide now what airport this is going to be, get the airport in shape, get
> maybe the relevant manual pages written and get prepared.

Thanks for taking the initiative, I think it's an excellent thing to
kick off now,
 particularly with our shorter release cycles.  Are you volunteering to organize
it?

I think the proposal/vote might be good to run on the forum.  I expect there
are various scenery developers who don't monitor the -devel mailing list and
the wider user-base of the forum may know of "hidden gems" those on
this list might miss.  It would also perhaps encourage a wider group of people
to participate in improving the scenery.

Regarding manual updates, I'm not sure there's massive value in re-writing
the tutorials etc. for each new location.  It would a lot of work, and the San
Francisco scenery is just a download/terrasync away.

Of course, it would be nice to have a well documented VFR tutorial flight
as part of the release, if only to introduce virtual fliers to the
area.  But that can
be done as an additon to The Manual, or on the wiki or main website.

-Stuart