Writer Guide update

Team:
WG chapters 16, 17, 18, 19 are now in WiP, ready for first review.
Others have been revised and are awaiting second review, and some chapters
have been published. I’m now working on the front matter and master doc for
the compiled book.
Jean

Hello, Jean,

great to hear about the progress on the 7.1 guides.

As you work on the covers etc. - this leads to the question of properly
naming and tagging these guides, along with the Community/Professional
naming scheme the TDF has decided on.

Just adding "Community" tag to the small LibreOffice logo seems not
equivalent - it is also misleading for the reader/user - one should be
warned that a LO Professional product might not work in the same way as
described in the guide.

The guides for v7.1 and newer are written for LibreOffice Community, not
for LibreOffice as such - actually LibreOffice as a product does not exist
anymore.

I believe every chapter and the book as well need an exclaimer on the
"second" page under "Publication date and software version" - where the
sentence "Based on LibreOffice 7.1." should be changed to "Based on
LibreOffice Community 7.1.", for example (excuse my English):

Disclaimer

This guide was written by volunteers and refers solely to the features,
settings, and look-and-feel of the LibreOffice Community office suite. As
such it does not cover the enterprise-class LibreOffice Enterprise family
of applications which might appear and behave differently. For respective
guides for the LibreOffice Enterprise products please refer to the
ecosystem partners that produced them.

Also, the title of the guides and the last page on the cover should
underline the same, that the guides describe the use of LibreOffice
Community products, not any other LibreOffice Professional or rebranded
products.

Lp, m.

napisala:

Hello team,

I agree when Mr. Srebotnjak states that we need to rewrite the sentence "Based on LibreOffice 7.1." to "Based on LibreOffice Community 7.1.", I will work on that for the Calc Guide 7.1.

However, about the disclaimer, in my opinion, it's not necessary to declare what the guides do not cover, I think it is clear enough when we say that the document is based on LibreOffice Community. Mentioning so many times the term LibreOffice Enterprise could lead the user to believe that TDF is working on two versions of LO (Community / Enterprise), which, as far as I understand is not correct.

Well, those were my opinion on that, but, of course we can discuss deeper on that.

Best regards,
Felipe Viggiano

Thanks to Martin for bringing this up.
I’ll change “LibreOffice 7.1” to “LibreOffice Community 7.1” on the
Copyright pages of Writer Guide chapters and the compiled book.

I agree with Felipe that a long Disclaimer is not necessary, but .perhaps
we might add a short sentence like, “Other versions of LibreOffice may
differ in appearance and functionality.”

I’d like to hear from Olivier on this topic.

Jean

Hello,

napisala:

I agree with Felipe that a long Disclaimer is not necessary, but .perhaps
we might add a short sentence like, “Other versions of LibreOffice may
differ in appearance and functionality.”

Jean, I find your proposal great. +1 from me.

Lp, m.

Also +1 from me.

Dave

Hi

There is no need to change "LibreOffice" to "LibreOffice Community" in the guides covers and copyright.

The project name is LibreOffice. You can build a product and rebrand it as you wish but the project name stays LibreOffice. TDF product is delivered with the brand "LibreOffice Community".

The guides contents are based on the LibreOffice project. Changing to "LibreOffice Community" will tie our guides to TDF product, not the project.

The sentence "Other versions of LibreOffice may differ in appearance and functionality" is just perfect. +1.

Kind regards
Olivier

Hi, Olivier,

it seems you did not understand my proposal or read it carefully.

We are not talking about changing the copyright notice, but about changing
the sentence "Based on LibreOffice 7.2." to "Based on LibreOffice Community
7.2." under the "Publication date and software version" subchapter.

The guides are based not on "LibreOffice project" but are written about and
based on a specific product - now "LibreOffice Community X.Y" and as such
refer only to that product and its release, ie. "LibreOffice Community
7.1". So that change is necessary and in line with the TDF board's decision
(writing "LibreOffice 7.2" is not as such a product just does not exist).

Lp, m.

V V sob., 10. apr. 2021 ob 14:42 je oseba Olivier Hallot <
olivier.hallot@libreoffice.org> napisala:

Hello,

+1 in Jean's proposal!

Best regards,

Felipe Viggiano

Correction: I’m changing it to LibreOffice 7.1 Community. That’s what
Italo’s announcement says. My mistake earlier.

I will also add the sentence “Other versions of LibreOffice may differ in
appearance and functionality.”
Both are on the Copyright page.
Jean