Hi :) The official LibreOffice website keeps having wobbly moments due to the strain of so many downloads!! So, it might be faster to get the official guides from the wiki. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Guides for older branches tend to be good enough for much more recent branches. So, for Calc and Base you need to go back to the 3.4.x but that should be plenty good enough Bear in mind that there are only around 4ish documenters to cover the work of 500 devs. Also MS Office only has 1 branch every 4 years (ish) whereas LibreOffice has 2 per year. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >To: Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013, 18:38 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Questions galore! > >On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Robinson Tryon ><[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Documentation Team, >> >> * First off, does anyone here spend any time on IRC? >> >> I tried joining #libreoffice-doc, but found myself rather alone. Being >> able to pop over to #libreoffice-qa or #tdf-infra can be rather handy >> for quick questions, and it would be great to be able to wander over >> to a documentation channel and ask questions or direct some >> praise/bugs/users/etc... in your direction. > >I don't spend time there, and I don't know if anyone else does. I'll >let others answer if they do. We're a very small team, at least of >active members. > >> >> * What's the status of documentation for LO 4.0? > >We're doing it as fast as we can (very small team of active members), >starting with the Getting Started guide. > >> >> I've seen some traffic on the documentation mailing list pertaining to >> 4.0-specific docs, however I see only a few chapters in "Getting >> Started with LibreOffice" available here: >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications > >I'm uploading them as we finish them. Hope to have the book done by >the end of next week, but no promises. > >> >> I didn't see anything for 4.0 or for 3.6 here: >> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ > >Only one book for v3.6: the Writer Guide; we didn't do one for v3.5. >I'll put a link to it on that page as soon as I get a chance. Not sure >when that will be, so if someone else with write access to that page >wants to update it, please do. > >> >> I did find the 'status of tasks' page section for 4.0 documentation, >> but don't see any schedule or estimated dates for delivery: >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks#Status_of_tasks_-_LO_v4.0 > > >"When we can" is the only answer to schedules and estimated dates. Did >I mention what a small active team we have? ;-) > >> >> When 4.0 is released, I assume that we're going to see an influx of >> user questions on the Ask site. If there isn't 4.0-specific >> documentation released on a particular topic, should we direct users >> to older published documentation, or should we link them to >> in-progress documentation specific to 4.0? > > >Either or both, depending on the topic. Unless the question is related >to a new or changed feature, the older published documentation should >be fine. > >> >> And for a related question... >> >> >> * Where should we point users who are seeking documentation? >> >> I've found quite a number of different pages containing documentation, >> both on and off the wiki. >> >> The wiki page for 'Publications' mentions that "Everything on the >> official page usually appears here a few days earlier," so is there >> any reason for me to use the "official" page? Maybe because that will >> provide users with more permanent links? > > >The website page has links only to the full books. >The wiki page has links to individual chapters as well as full books. >Sometimes linking to a chapter might be more useful; they are much >smaller downloads, which many users would appreciate. > >--Jean > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
