Over the years Keith N. McKenna has made many valiant attempts to maintain the project's documentation and enlist new contributors, but the regrettable situation is that very little new or updated AOO documentation has been written for a very long time.
I would take this opportunity to make a small correction to Peter Kovacs's observation about ODF Authors. The original OOO Authors was established shortly after OpenOffice.org was open sourced by Sun Microsystems in 2001 and subsequently managed by Jean Hollis Weber, the person mainly responsible for the core of ALL of OOo, AOO and LO documentation. When the OOo project was split into AOO and LO the decision was made to change the documentation working area name from OOO Authors to ODF Authors. The idea being that it would be one of the few shared areas where AOO and LO could work cooperatively together and the ODF Authors website/common working area was set up with provision for both projects to equally utilize the facilities of the ODF Authors website. Regrettably, AOO rejected this option, while LO made full use of the facility. For around 10 years ODF Authors facility was served by a Plone instance on a TDF server, but last year the LO project decided to move their reliance on Plone for the documentation development over to a Next Cloud instance. Since AOO had not made any attempt to use the facilities offered by ODF Authors in 10+ years it was reasonably assumed that the AOO project had no interest and would not be affected by this change. Where is this past ODF Authors material for AOO? When the change from Plone to NextCloud was agreed, I personalty archived everything from the AOO directories on ODF Authors to the LO NextCloud instance. For anyone with LO Nextcloud access this material can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/sbrfkqv (link to the NextCloud archive directory). I am sure that any contribution you and your friends might make to the AOO documentation would be very welcome. However, before you put more work into an Apache OpenOffice edition of the Base User Guide I think, in the interest of disclosure, it would be advisable to notify the members of the AOO project that you are currently finalizing an English translation of Robert Großkopf's Handbuch LibreOffice Base (https://tinyurl.com/vgokn75) for the LibreOffice Documentation Team, which is about to be published as the LibreOffice Base User Guide. I do NOT claim that what you are offering the AOO project is a copy of the same work, but you should be aware that there are members of of the Apache OpenOffice who are vehemently opposed to anything and everything related or connected to the TDF and LO. That is NOT to say that your contribution would be rejected by the AOO project. For anyone keen to create documentation for the Apache OpenOffice project, I would say you have a blank page so go for it. Dave On 31/03/2020 13:55, Pulkit Krishna wrote: > Is there no one left in the documentation team. I can convince a few of my > friend to join it. Meanwhile I need a wiki account. I have started the work > on Base Guide and I will finish the Preface and Chapter 1 by 5 April 2020. > Pulkit Krishna > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:50 PM Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Which files do you mean? I am not sure what you refer to. >> >> >> ODF Authors have left the project, in favour of Libre Office. They >> disbanded on 6 Nov 2018 within Libre Office. >> >> >> OpenOffice Documentation is currently not active. Dead sounds so final. >> There are volunteers, >> >> but imho it lacks a vision where to go, or where to start. >> >> >> I am sure if you manage to create a vision people will join. On >> d...@openoffice.apache.org you could find people that join. >> >> However I am happy if someone does something on our web presence. Wiki is >> the simplest access point. >> >> >> All the Best >> >> Peter >> >> >> Am 29.03.20 um 13:57 schrieb Pulkit Krishna: >> >> Where are the files stored? Does ODFAuthors exist? Is OpenOffice >> Documentation Dead? >> Pulkit Krishna >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:06 PM Pulkit Krishna <pulkitkrishn...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I have not written the book till now.I willl check out the guidelines. >>> Meanwhile, can I get a wiki account? >>> Pulkit Krishna >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 4:13 PM Peter Kovacs <leg...@posteo.de> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>> I have found only those guidelines: >>>> >>>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Wiki_Contribution_Guidelines >>>> >>>> >>>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Guidelines >>>> >>>> >>>> If something does not fit from your standpoint, then please open up a >>>> discussion. >>>> >>>> If ou have written your guide, it would be great to post a link for >>>> review. >>>> >>>> >>>> All the Best >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> Am 27.03.20 um 10:39 schrieb Pulkit Krishna: >>>>> I want to write the first base guide. Should I use any specific style >>>> or a >>>>> template for it? >>>>> Pulkit Krishna >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:07 PM Pulkit Krishna < >>>> pulkitkrishn...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> I want wiki account with useride:- pulkitkrishna email:- >>>>>> pulkitkrishn...@gmail.com >>>>>> Pulkit Krishna >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:06 AM Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Hello Pulkit Krishna, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do you have a specific Idea what you want to do? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We could need Tutorials or the Manual in the Wiki updated to the >>>> latest >>>>>>> version. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You get an Wiki account if you ask nicely on >>>> dev@openoffice.apache.org. >>>>>>> Please name your prefered login handle, when you ask for it. After >>>> that >>>>>>> you are setup to contibute to our wiki. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please, have patience, we all are free timers that work pro bono. So >>>>>>> answers take a while. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The overall team is small so we usually use only @dev (mailinglist) >>>>>>> these days. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am not sure what the link provided states. Maybe the organisation >>>>>>> behind it does not exist anymore. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All the Best >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Peter >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am 26.03.20 um 14:07 schrieb Pulkit Krishna: >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> I want to join the apache openoffice documentation team. Can anyone >>>>>>> tell me >>>>>>>> how to do so? >>>>>>>> Pulkit Krishna --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
