On 01/04/2020 17:31, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:leg...@posteo.de] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 4:24 PM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: [discussion] Documentation Contribution based or >> produced by LO? (was: How to join Docs team) >> >> I can not state the history as Dave said. Thanks for your view. >> >> >but you should be aware that there are members of of the >> > Apache OpenOffice who are vehemently opposed to anything and >> everything > related or connected to the TDF and LO. >> >> I have no issues if the work is based on top of LO >> Documentary efforts. > I do, because this documentation is far too far away from the needs of AOO.
The potential new AOO documentation contributor did NOT say that his contribution would be a copy of the LO Base documentation. I suspected that he might not be aware of "The Apache Way", so I indicated that it would be advisable to for him to make full disclosure of his work on the LO documentation to the AOO project before moving forward. > We, the ProOO-Box team, are working on the German-language documentation for > AOO, using the English originals of OOo 3.3 as a basis, which has proven to > be very useful. That is good news, but how does this help the AOO Documentation and why haven't you Jörg spoken up about this before now? > We use the Apache way and this is meritocratic, as we have been told in other > cases over and over again! What has this to do with a potential new AOO documentation contributor offering his services. > It may not be finished yet, but we've been working on the documentation all > the time, where no one else was doing it, and we've been working as much as > we could. I repeat my previous question: How does this help the AOO Documentation and why haven't you Jörg spoken up about this before now? > So it's not true that nobody would work on the documentation. Jörg, please quote the words I wrote, not your distorted interpretation. When I choose to write I write FACTS and I did NOT say "nobody would work on the documentation", I wrote: <Q> Over the years Keith N. McKenna has made many valiant attempts to maintain the project's documentation and enlist new contributors, but the regrettable situation is that very little new or updated AOO documentation has been written for a very long time. </Q> In other words, VERY LITTLE new or updated material has been added to the main AOO documentation website pages. Since the main AOO website is in English that statement can be taken to mean the English documentation. > greetings, > Jörg Jörg, your strident proclamations make enemies of those who would be friends of AOO. Many of us, Peter and myself included, understand that there can be no reunification, but we seek for cooperation between the projects whenever possible. There is no benefit or gain in continually resurrecting past animosities and dead issues. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
