On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 21:09 +0200, Laurent Godard wrote: > Hi Gerry > > > What I said to Andrew. We need to look at what exists and decide what it > > is we can do. I have little to no programming skill at this level having > > never dived in so can only offer high level support. > > as said previously bye someone else,i think this is waste of time > targetting a brand new DevGuide ! by experience it is a huge huge task > and energy could be put somewhere else > > Even if i'm blamed by sunnies (some may be aggressive sometimes) asking > this freeing every 6 months (i've a calendar reminder ;) ), i'm totally > sure of the will of freeing this and can understand some legal issues > and then delay ... (he guys, not so much, please) > > here are some alternative ways > - propose helping on freeing the existing one
No wonder I got the adverse reaction. Just to put it in perspective, I offered the services of this project to help maintain the dev guide. The instructions I got were to start working on a version here regardless on what might happen with the existing docs. > - provide translation of code source of the devGuide on the wiki into > new languages (Basic, Python) in our own licence provided we're allowed > to ...some info on this ? Now that's an idea. I was thinking more on terms of let's deal with a single aspect of the information needed for development and provide something that is more user friendly. I find most guides of this type really geeky. In that if you do not know the geek talk too bad. While the diehard developer likely doesn't even notice, users wanting to do say an extension are often overwhelmed by the learning process. > - populate the extensions wiki ! a lot or redactionnal is here needed > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_development Yes. We, meaning Scott and I, have not been able to find a way to take advantage of the wiki for the project but I have no problem with using one that is active so long as everyone involved understands and accepts the cross-polination. > - any other proposal accepted :) > I am definitely looking for ideas. > all of this to be translated, working with NLC > Just so you know, I regularly raid fr.openoffice.org for good material :-) -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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