Earlier, Frank asked whether the source for the OOoAuthors books
would be the wiki in future. This was in the context of perhaps
combining those books with the "official" User Guide on the wiki.
I asked on the OOoAuthors list for people's preferences on
keeping the source as ODT or wiki. So far everyone who has
expressed an opinion (including translators) has been in favour
of ODT.
This preference is not surprising, because the people working on
OOoAuthors material are self-selected to be people who want the
main output to be books.
I am thinking that Alan's comments about the most efficient use
of resources may be superceded by questions like: who is
available to work on documentation, what type of documentation do
they want to work on, and what formats do they feel comfortable
working on? Will the people who prefer the wiki actually produce
more documentation than those of us who prefer ODT? I don't know
the answer to that.
I do know that we at OOoAuthors have produced a lot of good
documentation (not perfect, and not as up to date as we would
like, but it's there and it's being translated into several
languages) and we are continuing to do so.
Further, I suspect that at least some of us who prefer ODT will
choose not to make the switch to the wiki, regardless of what OOo
Docs decides to do, and therefore some of us won't directly
contribute to that effort.
Lastly, I think that producing documentation for an office suite
in any other format than its own is not a good advertisement for
the product. By all means, have documentation on the wiki, but
produce at least some of it using the product itself. Perhaps the
"some of it" should be the OOoAuthors books.
--Jean
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