Anyone can submit changes/updates via GitHub (e.g., via pull requests)
The GitBook gets rebuilt any time changes are committed to the GitHub repository
Supports translations*
Both of these books could use some fresh updates. Take a look. When you find parts of the books that deserve updating, please fork the repository and submit your pull request(s)… or organize a local or online doc-a-thon to work together to make improvements. If you need help navigating how to contribute, let us know on Telegram or IRC and we’ll work with you to improve our CONTRIBUTING.md instructions (here and here). Together we can bring new life into these valuable resources for the community.
Thank you OpenMRS GCI students!
On behalf of the community, I’d like to thank all of our GCI students for their great work! Our migrated books are only one example of the contributions coming out of GCI. Keep up the great work!
*I’m hoping we can make a pass at improving/updating these books in English and then we can begin translating them.
The tips are still there – under Dev Manual > Get Support – and easy to find by searching for IRC. Maybe you were looking in the guide instead of the Dev Manual.
Translations are welcome, though I think it might be worth first updating what we have in English, so you don’t end up translating outdated information or text that is rapidly changing. I was hoping we could, for example, update the guide with new screenshots from the current reference application and latest versions of modules and update the dev manual with more recent info about SDK, platform vs refapp, info about distros, etc.
BTW, if you look closely, images (in assets folder) are currently duplicated at root and under the /en folder. Absolute references are turned into relative urls when the book is built, so I couldn’t get references to /assets to work properly. I posed the question on the GitBook Community Slack channel, but didn’t get an answer. Ideally, we could share many of the assets across translations and only use localized assets when needed.
I would leave it. The manuals have been migrated, but not really updated yet. If you can edit the description and point people to guide.openmrs.org for latest version, that’d be fine. But, no reason to take away a print option at this time.
