Hello Dan

This particular case is a translation job, which depends on the source
book in German. The procedure I suggest is for authoring.

Translating is a job that follows publication. I understand that
managing micro translations jobs is a challenge. For translation, I
imagine each community to take a snapshot (branch?) and produce a book,
much like the software is released.

Regards
Olivier
PS. Of course, errors and mistakes found while producing the book can be
patched upstream in "master".

Em 12/12/2019 10:01, Dan Lewis escreveu:
> What about the Base Handbook? It can not be translated until after the
> German version has been published. This is taking more time for version
> 6.2 because of the amount of translation required. Later versions should
> take a much shorter time because only the changes or added text will
> have to be translated. (This is what OmegaT does very well.)
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 12/12/19 7:45 AM, Olivier Hallot wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Other opinions: Yes I have one radically different.
>>
>> Rationale: the current workflow and available resources is incompatible
>> (IMHO) with speed of software development, the gap between software
>> release and Guide release is very hard to close.
>>
>> I prefer a dynamic "time-release" of the guides, as with the software.
>> That means publish "as-is" at time of release, whatever is available,
>> ideally synch'ing with the software release. Each update will be a
>> "Revision number".
>>
>> I foresee usage of master documents to compile the book periodically and
>> quickly, and chapters updated by trusted Authors. One coordinator per
>> guide. Full usage of track changes and comments.
>>
>> A new challenge for sure, but I propose to select one of our guides and
>> test the new workflow.
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> Em 07/12/2019 15:24, DaveB escreveu:
>>> I will add some points about the Documentation NextCloud structure and
>>> how things have become somewhat confused.
>>>
>>> When it was decided move from ODF Authors to NextCloud, I set up the
>>> NextCloud directory structure along similar lines to the one we had on
>>> ODF Authors. Although it was undecided if we needed a Published folder
>>> in the NextCloud structure. It was my understanding that our workflow
>>> would be also be very similar to Jean's original workflow diagram
>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Workflow.png
>>>
>>> It was about this time that we started work on the Calc guide and
>>> somebody arbitrarily decided that copies of the 4.1 guide should be
>>> deposited in the 6.0 Drafts folder. From then on things got more and
>>> more confusing, especially for new contributors.
>>>
>>> I agree with Jean and would advocate that we return to the original
>>> workflow. Other opinions?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 07/12/2019 10:21, Jean Weber wrote:
>>>> It makes more sense to me for updates (or new chapters) to go in
>>>> Drafts,
>>>> reviews in Feedback, and finished chapters in Published (the way we
>>>> did it
>>>> in ODFAuthors), instead of the way we’ve been doing it in NextCloud.
>>>>
>>>> Jean
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 at 03:32 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dan
>>>>>
>>>>> Documents for review should be in the Feedback folder.
>>>>> I moved them there for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards, Kees
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan Lewis schreef op 06.12.2019 17:12:
>>>>>>      I have completed editing the preface and chapter 1. These
>>>>>> have been
>>>>>> uploaded to the Draft folder. (Is this the correct place, or what
>>>>>> would be a better place to put it?) I have also created a Guide
>>>>>> status
>>>>>> spreadsheet based upon the Calc version. I have added one added
>>>>>> column: Replace screenshots. This has been placed in the Base
>>>>>> Handbook
>>>>>>> 6.2 folder similar to where the guide status spreadsheet was
>>>>>>> placed in
>>>>> Calc.
>>>>>>      My next project is to make necessary changes in two of the
>>>>>> example
>>>>>> databases that were discussed in the two documents I have uploaded. I
>>>>>> plan to edit one chapter at a time, and as I do so, I will be also
>>>>>> making editing each mentioned example databases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      In case anyone is interested, I have also created and
>>>>>> uploaded ePUB
>>>>>> versions of the preface and chapter 1. They are also in the draft
>>>>>> folder. These are only examples of what is possible with this format;
>>>>>> when each document is ready for publishing, then they have to be
>>>>>> modified based upon any changes are made.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 

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