On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. >>> >>> >>> >>> I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an >>> "OpenOffice FAQ" easily reachable by search engines at >>> http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and quite outdated (I don't know >>> whether >>> it's reachable from the home page, but it doesn't seem so). >>> >>> Time to make a new FAQ available or update the old one and link to it >>> from >>> the current site? >>> >> >> The current location of the FAQ is prominent in search results. That >> is valuable and worth preserving. >> >> But the current FAQ contents are out of date. They would need a lot >> of work to update/correct them. >> >> Although the FAQ's are presented in a way that is OK for the user, the >> static HTML source is structured in a way that will be painful to >> maintain. Getting a cleaner structure, for example using HTML >> definition lists (<dl>) would be easier and could be maintained via >> the CMS web interface. >> >> There is another set of FAQ's on the documentation wiki: >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ >> >> These also appear to be unmaintained. But I think the wiki version >> would be easier to maintain. >> >> So one possible resolution could be: >> >> 1) Take anything of use from the FAQ's at >> http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and copy them into new FAQ items on >> the wiki >> >> 2) Update the other FAQ's on the wiki >> >> 3) Add new items to the wiki FAQ (like the iPAD question) >> >> 4) Delete the old FAQ directory and replace with a single page that >> directs the reader to the wiki FAQ's. >> >> >> -Rob >> -Rob >> >>> Regards, >>> Andrea. >> >> > Rob; > > I have been updating some of the FAQ's on the wiki site that were tagged as > needing help. I am more than willing to start a comprehensive review and > clean-up of the User FAQ's on the documentation wiki if that is the way we > decide to go. The advantage is that the wiki is easier to maintain and it is > already categorized with a toc on the main page. >
The other FAQ on the website is also categorized: http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html So whatever direction we start from we'll probably want to update and consolidate. In my personal opinion, mdtext on the website is a good solution here. But my opinion takes a back seat when someone else actually volunteers to do the work. So if you prefer the wiki for this, then you have a +1 from me. I'd just recommend that you fold in anything good from the existing website into the wiki, so we have can have a single FAQ for the project. Oh, actually we have a few other FAQs: http://openoffice.apache.org/community-faqs.html http://openoffice.apache.org/developer-faqs.html http://openoffice.apache.org/pmc-faqs.html Maybe a simplifying assumption could be: 1) We make the MWiki FAQ's be the user-facing FAQs about the product and the project 2) We have the "internal" project-facing FAQ's on openoffice.apache.org website, in their current mdtext format. -Rob > Regards > Keith > >
