James Nichterlein wrote:
I would be happy to do this if you will let me know exactly what is to
be done
Thanks, Jim.
Maintainers are responsible for making sure their chapters are up
to date with changes in the software. This includes accepting or
rejecting changes suggested by other people who review the
chapter. Maintainers also improve upon chapters by adding or
rewriting material, and call for people to review their own changes.
Maintainers should have a good understanding of formatting issues
like anchoring illustrations and the use of our custom styles
(easy enough to learn if you're not familiar with them already).
The book's editor (up to now, that's usually been me, but with
Gary and other people coming on board, that may change -- indeed,
I hope so!) will generally do a pass through a chapter that has
more than trivial changes, as a check on consistency with the
writing style used in the rest of the book. Maintainers who feel
their writing skills (or their English, especially if not native
speakers) are a bit weak thus get backup from an experienced
technical editor.
When a chapter has been revised, the maintainer creates a PDF and
puts both the ODT and PDF on the OOoAuthors website, then
notifies me (through the list) that the PDF is ready to be
uploaded to the Docs website.
Hmmm... there may be more that I can't think of right now. Guess
I should write this up a bit better and put it on the website!
Cheers, Jean
