Hallo Andreas, 2013/1/26 Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de>
> Am 26.01.2013 17:39, Guy Waterval wrote: > > Hi Rakesh, > > > > 2013/1/26 Rakesh Thakoordyal <rakesh...@rogers.com> > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I recently subscribed to this list and was wondering what I could do to > >> get involved in the documentation side of Apache. I've seen a lot of > >> activity on the dev mailing list but not much on the doc list. > >> > > > > Happy to see you here. > > The list exists only for one month, we are planning to make a whole AOO > > documentation from scratch. It's a big work, but also a very exiting > > challenge. We are beginning and have to organize, but I'm sure you will > > enjoy to be here and share your ideas with us. > > > > A+ > > > > Excuse me Sir, but I find it extremely boring to discuss the 359th > version of a text processor manual or the 947th rewrite of a spreadsheet > wiki. I'd rather consult my old MSOffice '95 text books which were > written in a past age when computer users were supposed to have an IQ > above 100. > I'm sorry to have disturbed you with my post. > > AOO documentation won't fly if we do not even manage to update the > existing 3.3 documentation for version 3.4 (regex anyone?). > OK, but we have a licence issue. We should adopt an Apache license to avoid to push this license issue always before us. > > For writing any part of the documentation it is mandatory that you know > the respective part of the program as well as a developer does and that > you have a sound overview over the whole suite (including some glitches > and current bugs). > +1 You seem to have a great experience in the documentation area, and this will be very helpful for us. So, many thanks to have subscribed to this list. > > btw: LibreOffice documentation is a big <face palm> because everybody > puts his/her own misconceptions into the docs. Why not? Some of the > developers do the same with their software. > That's your opinion, but as you are an activ member of the LibO project, you should perhaps change the things with a constructive attitude. BTW, could we have a link pointing to one of your works in the documentation area? It's always interesting to can see documents produced by experimented writers. A+ -- gw
