G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:19 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
For those of you not on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, I thought you
should know that G. Roderick Singleton wrote a note to the
native-lang and docs lists, containing a very biased "history"
which distorts several important facts and makes an offensive
accusation about the OOoAuthors project and those of us working
there.
Too bad it was all true.
In my response, I said:
I am not going to contribute to a flame war by answering his
points one by one, but I must say that if this is the attitude of
the co-lead of the Documentation Project, then he ought to be
replaced.
Do what you have to do. I am disturbed by how you and OOoauthors operate
and particularly disturbed when promises are broken.
I am aware of no broken promises. We promised to put our
published material on the Docs site, and I have done that.
We have published (by my count, which may be off) 42 chapters for
OOoV1 and 46 chapters for OOoV2 (including 2 full volumes of the
set), all of which are on the Docs site.
We are continuing work on many more chapters. Are you suggesting
that the fact we're still working on the user guide constitutes a
"broken promise" to produce one? That's an absurd distortion of
the real situation.
High quality user documentation, with proper reviews and editing,
takes time. Anyone can throw together a relatively short, badly
written, badly edited book; we are doing a lot more than that.
Jean
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