Hi :) I think Ubuntu's Community Documentation tries to do too much sometimes.External links are a good idea but it can be tricky trying to find something suitably reliable to link to. Hopefully most distros will be able to just link directly to our documentation here.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Johnny McClung <jdmccl...@gmail.com> To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 23 February, 2011 19:43:18 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ubuntu Community Documentation The last thing I want to do is cause problems or duplicate work. I had a thought and if that is not the best use of my time, fine. I want to help you guys where you need me. Thank you, Johnny On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:50 PM, David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> wrote: > Hi Johnny, :-) > > Well that could be one approach. But the documentation we have is > still very much a work in progress. We'd be continuing to work on it, > and you'd have an out-of-date copy. It would be particularly sad since > we are about to re-do *all* the screenshots in the docs. They're > currently mostly taken under Windows. The plan is to re-take all the > screenshots under Ubuntu 10.10. And that's just one of the tasks > scheduled. > > We'd love to keep you with us, Johnny. It seems like a sad duplication > of effort for you to be documenting LibreOffice "over there" while > we're doing the same thing "over here". :-D > > When you wrote to me asking me where to start, I mentioned that the > best thing would be to write to Hal and Barbara on the list, because > they are the people with the closest view of the work right now. > > Me, I've been busy dealing with Alfresco, plus I've also had client > work to do that has meant that I've not actually been doing any > documenting recently. > > To make up for that, I had volunteered to re-take all those > screenshots. But, for instance, this could be one task you could help > out with, Johnny. > > Hal, Barbara, can you guys organize Johnny and me and point us both at > some work, given that you know best where we are with things right > now? > > By the way, we already have a couple of meta tasks we need to get done: > > 1) We need to finalize a LibreOffice versioning system to maintain in > the meta info of each file we work on. > > 2) We need to finalize the chapter template. > > David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
