On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 13:03 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: > On Tue Nov 02 2010 11:30:21 GMT-0700 (PDT) Michael Wheatland wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Carlos Jenkins <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> I really think we are going to need a Dashboard on the website so users > >> can accommodate their work or interest on their dashboard. > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Note/Question: Should I cross-list? > > > > Another question that needs to be asked, should we have a document > > checkout for the workflow to ensure that only one person is working on > > any given document at once? > > The current setup has a "flag" that is set for "retract" to show that > someone else is working on the document, though it does not prevent > someone else from downloading. > > > Also how is community consensus reached as to when a document is ready > > for external publishing? > > A democratic review system for proposed changes on final review > > documents should be pretty easy to setup (Voting API). For an example > > on this type of system have a look at Ubuntu Brainstorm, slightly > > different concept but could work just as well. > > > > Thanks for the info so far. > > There is no community consensus on when a document it ready for external > publishing. Right now, Jean Weber, the volunteer co-lead makes that > call. I see no problem with this setup as Jean has the expertise to > make the call, and I have seen no complaints from any other members. I > do not feel a vote would be in the best interest of the project. > > Have a look at the www.oooauthors.org , on the entry page is a dcoument > called Introducing OOoAuthors it details how the project works. >
Although people seem happy with me acting as "publisher" for the OOo user guides, it really would be much better if each book had its own coordinator/editor/publisher, both to spread the work around and so people could cover for each other if someone is unavailable for more than a few days (illness, travels, other work or family commitments). The idea was to have an experienced technical editor (or similar) to act in the role of coordinator/editor/publisher for each book, but the other people who filled that role in the early days have moved on to other things. BTW, the OOo *developer* docs are not handled through OOoAuthors; those docs are primarily wiki-based and the processes for review and approval are different. --Jean -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
