collaboration between AOOo and LO

Hi :slight_smile:
I thought ODFauthors were trying to organise collaboration between OOo and LO
documentation? I don't think this should be 1 person's responsibility to
organise. I think there are a few people here from ODFauthors now?

Since LO is developing faster and has more functionality it might make sense to
work on the guides for LO and then rebrand for OOo? I thought that one of the
low priorities for this team was to reduce things such as "LibreOffice Writer"
to "Writer" if that would make it easier. Ok, bad example because a simple
find&replace would solve all of those quite quickly.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

We (whether ODFAuthors or LO Docs) only work on user guides (or have,
to this point). That's only part of what's needed, as we were
discussing earlier re power users etc.

This page has some detail on what I mean. Some of it was also on the
ODFAuthors list.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27826116

It's also not clear at this point what status ("official" or
"unofficial/community") the user guides produced by ODFAuthors will
have in the AOOo project, due to licensing issues. Long story; please
don't ask me for details.

I wasn't suggesting that this was my (or any other one person's)
responsibility, just pointing out that if it's going to happen, others
will need to do most/all of it.

--Jean

Hi Tom
Any subject line involving both AOOo and LibO should probably be prefaced
with a "Here be Dragons".

As Jean likes to put it, managing the authors group to date has been like
herding cats.

On the AOOo lists discussions get quickly into personal slanging matches
and much airing of dirty linen. That aside, the subject of documentation
is - if I read the lists correctly - nowhere near as important as getting
a build of AOOo done and sorting out the integration of OOo into the
Apache farmyard. Maybe I am not 100% correct but.....

So herding of cats on AOOo would be something to dream of (Nobody expects
the S.I. etc...... apologies to MP).

My impression at present is that we (?) are better served by continuing to
review and revise docs for LibO - including a peep at 3.5 - and (where
appropriate) sneak a look for differences at the _old_ OOo 3.4Beta which
was released just before the Oracle "Dump".

regards
Martin

I agree with Martin's assessment of the situation. I think most of the
active people from ODFAuthors are now working on LO anyway. Dan Lewis
is an exception, and I don't know what Jared Kobos's plans are. Not
sure who else is still around; in mid-September, after most people
have finished their holidays, perhaps we'll have a better idea of the
situation.

--Jean

What is the S.I. and who is MP?
--David

Very technical: Spanish Inquisition and Monty Python :=)))))
<grin>
Martin

Spanish Inquisition and Monty Python

Alex

Hi :slight_smile:
I wouldn't have expected that!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

<giggle> I didn't expect that here. But it is quite appropriate. Thanks.
David

SI = http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_Internacional_de_Unidades

MP could be Member of Parliment

Probably need a bit of context. :slight_smile: