Our new Help Pages
Over the past few months some of our volunteers have been working hard to update the Three Rings Help pages.
The old Documentation Website had got very out of date (a downside of always adding in new features!), and we know it wasn’t helping people as much as it should. It’s now been replaced by the Help Pages, available on this site.
In addition to being more up-to date, we think they’ll also be a little easier to navigate: we’ve broken down the Help so that each section of the site focuses on a particular part of the system, from the Overview, to the Admin tab – it should make it easier to drill down and get help with whatever you need.
We’re going to keep working on the Help pages, of course! If you’ve got any suggestions for how they can be improved, get in touch to let us know!
In future, we’ll be including information about each release’s New Features on the Help Pages as well, starting with Milestone: Watson. And speaking of Watson…
Why are we calling Milestone: Watson ‘Watson’?
One or two of the Three Rings users who volunteer on our test team have asked why ‘Watson’, when all the other Three Rings Milestones have been named after elements*.
Unfortunately, there isn’t an element whose name starts with W and ‘wolfram’ as the alternative name for Tungsten is already heavily associated with Wolfram Computing, so it wasn’t really suitable for a Three Rings release.
Instead, we’re opting for Watson – because all the other Milestones have been elementary.
After Watson, we’ll be back to the usual element-based names (at least for another three Milestones…): Milestone: Xenon is due in Autumn 2016.
*Milestone: Jethrik was named after a fictional element; Quintessence was the theoretical ‘fifth’ element in the Aristotelian model; G-124 was an interim release whose name was based on an isotope of Gallium.