Hi everyone, 2010/11/2 Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>
> Ideally, for the user guides we need 5 coordinator/ editor/ publishers > (I don't really know what to call them) -- 1 for each book -- and I > don't know how many doing the writing/ editing/ reviewing/ indexing/ > graphics. I would like to see each chapter have someone taking > responsibility for keeping it up to date, though obviously one person > could take on several chapters, either in one book or a series of > related chapters in several books: for example, all the chapters on > customizing or all the chapters on printing & PDF creation. That would > maximize consistency with the least effort. So... maybe 20 people? (And > I'm not considering other types of docs, such as FAQs, tutorials, > how-tos, etc.) > What about this: Each book as a coordinator* responsible of that book. And, each page/subpage/chapter may have a responsible too. Pages that do not define a responsible user inherits the responsible user of it parent. This can be implemented in Drupal as a field on the chapter edition page, hidden when viewing it, and the we can do reports on who are responsible of. Ok, now we know who is responsible of what chapter... now what? What we need to do with this information? Get a notification if the book is modified... what else? This page has more info than you want, but one relevant part is the list > of things we do when publishing a chapter or a book. There is a lot of > post-processing related to where the files are put, wikifying them, etc. > Even if much of this can be (semi-)automated, someone has to start the > process and verify that it has completed correctly. > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Producing_User_Guides You're right, always exporting or changing from one complex format as ODT to Wiki/HTML has problems. We will check the performance of the ODT Import module for Drupal to know what are the capabilities of the plugin. If a correct import is done, people could work on ODT and then import them to nodes on Drupal, so people will be able to read it online on site as a book in many ways. Cheers -- http://www.cjenkins.net/ http://csl-tec.softwarelibrecr.org/ -- 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
