Alan wrote:
I don't know anything about the OOoAuthors site, but it sounds like a
great idea.
I also really want to move things to the wiki.
Say I update graphics and Kirsten updates text. Someone then has to put
the two together or someone has to go first and then someone has to go
second
It's fairly easy for someone to merge the changes in two copies
of an ODT file. but yes it is an extra step.
and what if I update graphics and then that section is removed?
Using a wiki won't eliminate or even lessen that potential problem.
Old-fashioned linear editing between multiple individuals is remarkably
painful. Wiki's may have their problems, but boy do they have their
strengths.......
Although a wiki has the advantage of giving people the ability to
edit smaller "chunks" of a chapter more easily, thus allowing
more people to do small changes, it also has the distinct
*dis*advantage of increasing the probability of less internal
consistency. Note: I put consistency lower on my priority list
than up-to-date, so I'm willing to put up with this disadvantage.
Now for a bigger question: do we really need the User Guide as
well as the guides produced by OOoAuthors? Given our limited
resources, is it worth the extra effort to bring the UG up to
date, edit it, and especially maintain it, along with the
OOoAuthors guides? I have not looked closely enough at the UG to
have a good idea of how much difference or similarity there is
between it and the other books. (Of course there is going to be
considerable overlap in topics, but I don't know about the
organisation, approach, level of detail, etc.) I suspect it needs
quite a bit of updating in at least some areas, where OOo itself
has changed in the past few releases. (Some of the OOoAuthors
material is equally out of date.)
--Jean
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