Hi,
I am thinking that I am wrong about my approach to uploading FAQs to the OOo site as individual files from OOoAuthors, and that my concept is not serving the FAQ community as well as the script file transfer would serve the community. To take steps to correct my stubborn approach, I am considering creation of a directory, called "collaboration", at the user-faq project, and then uploading the decompressed HTML file provided by Con's (CPH's) script file.
I think this would make the url for the new faq set:
http://user-faq.openoffice.org/collaboration/
If I do this, I will also create a page at the user-faq project (maybe as an index to the collaboration directory) that explains various ways for OpenOffice.org community members to work with errors visible in this FAQ set, including filing of issues at the user-faq project, or repairing issues themselves at the OOoAuthors project.
I will then show links and discussion at the documentation project index...
http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/
...to help show the various sets of faqs and ways that we are trying to make FAQ contributions easier for the OOo community.
I picked the user-faq project for this collaborated faq set, both because it is Con's innovation that will allow us to do this massive transfer, and because it will keep the FAQ noise separated from the documentation project work, where much time and effort is spent by developers of the on-line help documentation, which is included with the OOo product. I did not want to inundate those hard-working folks with faq related email messages from the issues list and dev lists, especially when it will not pertain directly to their work. I know that I can get very noisy in the issue tracker and on the mail lists, and anticipate that I will, if I perform this task.
Especially if you rebel against this movement, please speak up so that your thoughts may be heard! Perhaps I am the only rebel too, which would not surprise me. This rebel is beginning to cave, because I think perhaps my idea was off track with what is wanted or desired from the community, and I have actually become a hurdle to the process, as it is.
I now am starting to think we should fully experiment with all of our options, at the very least, and then use real data or community spirit or whatever might exist to show us which method rules, so that we can narrow the faq work to one set of faqs.
I have cross posted to hit all potential contributors or folks who might have something to say about this. To keep the conversation in one place, and to keep the noise down on lists busy with other work, I suggest that all responses be sent to
[email protected]
Please share what you think... else I will carry out my actions close to what is shown herein.
Thank you for your time, and for your contributions thus far!
:)
Diane
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