On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's pretty much up to you to decide how, what and where you want to >> contribute. You're welcome to give me a buzz if I can be of any help >> to you. ;-) >> >> David Nelson >> > > I guess I'll start by looking at what is on the wiki to-do list from your > earlier post (and installing LibO, of course). And feel free to point me in > any direction you'd like.
Barbara, Ron Faile has been taking the lead on the user guides, and I've been contributing a bit, along with at least one other person. The Getting Started book is pretty much done (except for making corrections and filling in a few blanks as we learn the answers), so IMO the next step is to work on the Writer Guide. What we are doing is rebranding the OOo Writer Guide chapters and adapting them to LibO: adding info on features that are in LibO but not OOo, deleting or revising references to older versions of OOo, changing screenshots as necessary, that sort of thing. Major revisions are being deferred until later; at this point we just want to get books ready as quickly as possible. Ron has done the first step (applying the LibO template) and possibly the second (changing refs from OOo to LibO). Now we all need to pick chapters and do more detailed work. You'll find links to the files in the lower part of the table on this page, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development and below that, the template. The workflow description at the top --at least the bits about putting things into different folders-- does not correspond to the way we're doing things at the moment; we're just replacing the files with updated ones. All the old files stay on the wiki and can be recovered at any time. So basically what you do is: pick a chapter, put your name in the checkout column so others know the file is being worked on, do whatever is necessary (with change tracking on), put the file back, change the feedback column to BACK (so Ron knows it's ready for him to check), and remove your name from the checkout column. If you're not sure how to replace a file on the wiki, just ask. I hope I described that process correctly; if not, I'm sure David or Ron will correct me. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
