2012/12/2 Guy Waterval <[email protected]> > Hi Louis, > > 2012/12/1 Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> > > > Hi > > On 12-12-01, at 15:52 , Guy Waterval <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > A new doc mailing list is absolutely necessary. It could offer an > > > alternative to the odf authors solution, as this group is the > > documentation > > > area of LibreOffice. Even if people are totally correct there, we have > to > > > be realistic, the conditions are not good there for people working on > an > > > apache documentation project. > > > > From prior experience and also from current, I'd submit that a new list > > for this purpose is needed. I'd also see if former OO documentation > writers > > want to participate. Of course, to hit my usual refrain, I'm also as > always > > interested to learn if we can work with other implementations of ODF > based > > on OO code. > > > > FWIW, when Sun was sponsoring OOo, the Doc project gained productive > > vigour under Frank Peters, of Sun/Oracle. He brought to bear his > > professional abilities. He also sought out non-Sun/Oracle community > > members. It was a good, multilingual project. Clayton worked with him on > it. > > > > Happy to see that you support the creation of a doclist. By the way, it's > not my intention to criticize the work accomplished by Keith and Prabha on > the odf authors website. My personal preference is also definitly a printed > documentation, but I think that an online doc under ALV2.0 is obligatory, > we have no choice, and if we support and help the team of Ricardo, we have > a real chance to get it. If we had a dedicated list for the documentation, > it would be also more easy to support a printed variant with people who as > me are interested by this way. >
Well, there is no "team" yet... ;) +1 for a new mailing list and for proposal #1. Regards Ricardo > > A+ > -- > gw > > > > > >
