On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:37 PM, PeeWee <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been upgrading the Draw (4.1) and will complete the remaining chapters > fairly quickly. Then it will be onto the Calc Guide to bring up to 4.1. The > Calc chapters are being upgraded to 4.0 by other volunteers. I shall then > upgrade the chapters to 4.1 so that the Calc Guide has the same look and feel > throughout the guide. After that I will be moving onto the Impress Guide > which is now at 4.0 to upgrade to 4.1 maybe 4.2. Just have to wait and see. > > I think the best bet is to move onto the other LO modules because I think > there is a shortage of volunteers to upgrade the remaining modules. I am sure > Jean will advise which is the best to have a go at. > > > On 16 Nov 2013, at 13:30, Martin Saffron [via Document Foundation Mail > Archive] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've just taken another look at the publications page >> (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications) and >> would like advice as to which area I can begin work on. Is the >> objective to bring all guides up to date (4.1.x branch) or are 4.0.x >> guides sufficient?
Jean here. General comment to Martin: We've been tending to skip a point release for Getting Started and the Writer Guide, because we haven't been able to keep them updated fast enough while at the same time improving the content, not just updating it. Calc Guide is something of an orphan and, as you can see, hasn't been updated since v3.4. The objective at this point is to finish the Calc Guide to 4.1 and start updating GS and WG to v4.2. The first beta of LO 4.2 is due out next week (see Release Plan, https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/4.2 and the Release Notes, https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.2 So, my suggestions to you are: 1) Go through Chapters 5, 6, 12, 13 of Calc Guide (currently listed as LO v4.0) to see if anything needs changing for v4.1 -- or if anything wasn't updated correctly from v3.4 to v 4.0. Also Appendix C hasn't been updated from v3.4; you could do that. Other chapters have already been updated to v4.1, but Peter hasn't been through all of them for look and feel updates. People are working on Ch14 and Appendixes A and B. I'm really hoping to get that book done by the end of November. 2) Start identifying which chapter of Getting Started and/or other books will need updating for v4.2. Add info to this page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks Also would be useful to go through the existing GS book to see what else needs updating or improvement. PLEASE NOTE: Most chapters in this book cover material also included in other books, though topics and level of detail vary. Therefore, noting necessary updates changes in chapter lists for other books is very helpful. 3) I am still looking for one or more people to help with updating the Base Handbook, which was translated from German to English. In this case, the work involves translating new material that was added to the German handbook for v4.1. If you are interested in helping with this work, I can provide more info & point you to the relevant files. 4) Work on Base Guide (different book, written from scratch in English). If you're interested in that, I'll provide more info. I'm in the middle of rationalizing chapters of that book following recent work by Dan Lewis (and earlier work that I've neglected to follow up on). --Jean -- To unsubscribe 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
