Michele wrote: > Good. Whoever created the process we follow did an excellent job. I > have a question on the process though. Say I am the maintainer of a > chapter and I have accepted/rejected the reviewer's changes: > - what are the naming conventions? chapterName_date or > chapterName_initials_date?
Our naming conventions say chapterName_date_initials, but I confess I usually do it the other way around (chapterName_initials_date). I don't think it much matters, but I do like to see the initials of at least the last person to handle the file. > - where do I upload it? At this point I recommend the Drafts folder, until we're sure it's ready to publish. > should there be a "published" folder or should > such folder created and populated by Gary? Anyone can create a Published folder at any time, but at least in theory the book's editor (Gary in the case of the Writer Guide) should populate it... unless he's away or too busy at a time when a deadline (such as release of OOo itself) is looming, at which point you or I could publish chapters. Indeed, for OOo2.x I often did that, with Gary doing his editing pass when he had the time. > What would the missing chapters talk about? The two unwritten chapters in the OOo2.x outline were: 17 Working with Macros and Extensions 18 Using Writer/Web We never had a proposed outline for the "Macros and Extensions" chapter. The "Extensions" part would now go instead into my proposed chapter or appendix on "Customizing Writer". Andrew Pitonyak wrote the macros chapters for Getting Started and Calc; if we did want a similar chapter specifically aimed at Writer, he would be the obvious person to write it (assuming he has time). So "Using Writer/Web" is the main one. And I'm sure there are other topics that have not been covered in the book but should be... though none are coming to mind right at this moment. I'll make a list over the next few days as they occur to me. Some would probably fit into existing chapters, but there might be one or more that would best go into a new chapter. --Jean
