To me, at least, the documentation is extremely useful. When I start
learning to use a new product, it saves an immense amount of
frustration.
I hope to be able to do more reviewing in the future--just have been
swamped with other volunteer situations (somehow I have not yet learned
there are only 24 hours in a day). I still don't feel I know enough
about the product to be able to actually write the doc.
Barbara
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 07:26 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> Even though hundreds of people are members of OOoAuthors and/or the OOo
> Documentation Project, very few actually contribute to writing, reviewing, or
> editing of user-documentation content (whether for books or on the wiki). A
> few years ago OOoAuthors at least had many more active members.
>
> We've talked a lot (especially on Docs) about how best to provide info (wiki
> vs books vs ??) -- and that's relevant and important -- but very few people
> seem to actually produce any content.
>
> I think this is very disappointing, but perhaps there is so much more now
> available (through community forums as well as third-party books and
> websites,
> tutorials and how-tos) and the Help is so much improved, that we don't need
> so
> much "official" documentation from the project?
>
> --Jean
>
