On 7/21/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
marbux wrote: You and some of the other respondents are looking at this in quite a different (and more complex) way than I was, which means that I wasn't very clear in my previous note to this list. What I have in mind is a not-terribly-long document (30 pages?) outlining "things you can do to make your docs work more reliably" for ordinary OOo users needing to share docs with MSO users. IIRC, Solveig Haugland (or perhaps it was Bruce Byfield) have something on a blog that's along the lines I'm thinking of. I must try to track it down (and hope I'm not totally imagining it).
Sorry. Something like that would make more sense than what I thought was being proposed. But from the perspective of the obvious often being overlooked, it would probably be good along the way to make sure all such issues identified in the wiki have actually made their way into the bug base. And, perhaps, this isn't a project worth pursuing, because of the
complexity and the moving target.
As you've described the project more closely, I think it would be worth pursuing. A few more suggestions: * Prominently caveat that the guide does address a moving target. * Consider some outreach to the developers who work on MS Office interop to put review of the guide for needed updating on their regular pre-release checklist. They're the ones who really know the subject, are equipped with the MS and SO/OOo software to keep tabs on version madness, know what issues they are working on, etc. * Consider an effort to involve them in the guide's design, development, and periodic review. * Consider linking guide subtopics to the corresponding issue reports in the bug base so users and guide developers/maintainers can quickly and easily check the current status of the given interop wart. Alternative: provide Issue ID numbers as citations and put a link to the bug base search interface in a footer in the guide or in a "what's related?" inset box for each subtopic. Such an inset might also link to related topics on the wiki and include the "what links to this page?" Mediawiki drop-down back-links page selector. Best regards, Marbux
