On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 09:58 -0700, Chad Lines wrote: > Good Morning Everyone, > > I noticed that the Impress Guide has a lot of drafts and no reviews. Being > new, I thought that this might be a good place to get started but I wanted > to make sure that I'm not going to be infringing on work that anyone else is > doing with that guide. If anyone has any comments, concerns, objections, > suggestions, etc. please let me know! Also, I'm interested in how long > reviewing is generally expected to take, just so I have some reference, so > if anyone wouldn't mind giving me just a rough estimate, it would be very > much appreciated! > > Thanks everyone! I'm very excited to be working on this with you all!
Chad, it's great to have you on the team. When someone is working on a chapter, they are supposed to check it out so it shows a "working copy" in the Drafts folder. Any chapter not checked out is available for someone to review. Most chapters of the Impress Guide need in-depth reviewing for accuracy and usability. The main question at this point is: do the instructions (originally written for OOo Impress) work with LibreOffice Impress? Are there any features in LibO but not in OOo that are relevant to this chapter and need to be written about (bearing in mind that we don't try to cover everything). And even when things are complete and correct, the screenshots may be out of date. How long is reviewing expected to take? That depends a lot on the chapter and how much work is involved in following the instructions to see if they work. My guess is a first pass through a typical chapter can take anywhere from 1 to 8 hours, perhaps more if a lot of recapturing and/or relabelling of screenshots is involved. BTW, if you are unable to redo pictures, that's okay; just flag the ones that need work and someone else will do them. Obviously, if you've only got an hour or two a day to work on this, then it could take a week to finish a chapter. If life intervenes and it looks like you won't be able to finish within a week, please upload what you've done, even if you keep the file checked out, and let us know that you've been delayed. Or check it back in and say you're unable to finish it within a reasonable time. This happens to all of us. I assume you've read the document on producing LibO user guides (found in Resources), which describes what to do or not do when reviewing, creating and inserting graphics, and so on. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
