Thanks for the clarification, Jean. I have read the document on producing user guides, and intend to reference it constantly through my first few reviews.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 screenshots may be out of date.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 > -- 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
