Hi :) Don't worry about the devs. As documentation is improving more people are getting interested in Base. Hopefully that might result in more devs getting interested/less-scared.
Cor, on the Users Lists, keeps berating me for saying there are not many devs working on Base. I think Alex has said there seems to be a bottle-neck preventing new code and patches from getting accepted. Again, hopefully the lead taken by the documentation team will go some way to increasing the amount of interest amongst more experienced, knowledgeable and/or skilled devs. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 6/2/12, Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.roge...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.roge...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started with Base To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 6 February, 2012, 23:44 2012/2/6 Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:04:08 -0200 > Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.roge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Spliting guides woule be DESASTROUS ... imagine someone trying to get > help > > on a guide having to find the info they need on ANOTHER guide ... sorry > > this will not work, it is easier to have a step by step aproach and let > > those who need it jump to the sections they want. > > > > GS with BASE whould IMHO be related to the simple task of making a adress > > book (see BASE TUTORIAL by Mariano Casanova) > > Yes, I think this would be the best approach if we were starting from > scratch. Use one of the wizard's standard databases and show the creation > of the table(s) and input form(s), a couple of simple queries and a simple > report. Design from first principles would then be covered in the Base User > Guide. > > But we are not starting from scratch. Dan has put a lot of work into this > and I'm sure he doesn't want to see it wasted. Also it is high time we got > *something* out. It seems that Base has always lagged behind the other > modules where documentation is concerned. So cutting down the existing GS > guide and moving the deleted sections elsewhere would seem to be the best > option. I am going to try and produce a cut-down version and see if it will > work. If I succeed, I will put it into the drafts folder for review. > > > Base seems to be abandoned in the dev front also ... the bugs abound and the work is meek. The last GOOD news I saw about this component was that the drivers for "serious" DB like MySQL and PostgreSQL were being tuned to work with 3.5 ... it IS a shame. Rogerio -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
