2010/9/6 Jürgen Schmidt <juergen.schm...@oracle.com>

> Hi Alexandro,
>
> thanks for picking up this topic immediately.
>
> Whatever we think will be an appropriate solution to provide an easier way
> how users can give feedback. I would suggest that we create a tool that use
> the input from the IDLs (the generated type library) as input and produce
> based on this info whatever is necessary.
>

Do we have this tool already? How does the current documentation gets form?
AFAIK the UNO interface is atomic and this will provide far too many items.


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> Juergen
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>
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> On 9/5/10 10:37 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>
>> Hi during OOoCon a conversation started about the lack of examples on the
>> API documentation as far as contributions goes. Basically there are
>> several
>> places where to go to:
>> - API Documentation
>> - CodeSnippets
>> - Developer Guide
>> - OOo Wiki
>>
>> The main issue is that users and readers have low accessibility to
>> introduce
>> examples or comments on the documentation. There have been some possible
>> solutions discussed:
>> - Move the API Docs to the Wiki
>> - Version the API Docs depending on the OOo version
>> - Close codeSnippets or move it to a technology that allow users to just
>> paste snippets directly on the site
>>
>> As always the issue becomes lack of resources, time and information. My
>> feeling is that if we air this topic with possible solutions would help us
>> find better solutions. I do have a small script that allow me to clean off
>> the documentation from the collabnet HTML and just isolate the HTML
>> snippet.
>> My next step could be to find a converter from HTML to a wikilang that
>> allow
>> us to easy publish it on the wiki and publish it on the wiki as a service
>> (batch upload).
>>
>> Help is welcomed.
>>
>>
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