Hello Felipe

I agree with you that it would be a good idea to encourage LO users to update 
to the latest version.

Regards
Peter Schofield
psaut...@gmail.com



> On 12 Nov 2020, at 04:12, Felipe Viggiano <felipeviggi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Got it, Steve and Peter! Thanks!
> 
> This was just something I was not sure of how to proceed. The reason I'm
> wondering about it is that it's not rare to find users with very old LO
> versions installed and it's possible that some of them don't even know that
> newer versions were released.
> Perhaps we can put an easily visible note on older guides stating something
> like this:
> 
> "This book relates to a previous LibreOffice release and it is not being
> supported anymore. Please check for the latest version in
> https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/";
> 
> Maybe this could encourage users to update their LO and look for the new
> guides.
> Would love to know the team's opinion about it.
> 
> Best regards,
> Felipe Viggiano
> 
> Em qua., 11 de nov. de 2020 às 11:41, Peter Schofield <psaut...@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
> 
>> Hello Felipe
>> 
>> I am updating the Impress guide to 7.0 and have used the previous version
>> as a base. However, many chapters need a rewrite because the standard of
>> document is very poor.
>> 
>> I would not recommend working on the older versions of user guides. Some
>> of them could prove to be very costly in time to make them look good.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Peter Schofield
>> psaut...@gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11 Nov 2020, at 14:09, Steve Fanning <stevefann...@libreoffice.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Felipe,
>>> 
>>> Some who have been involved longer than me might have some other
>> thoughts but :
>>> 
>>> (1) I would not want to go back and update old books.
>>> 
>>> (2) If any errors are identified with the latest published version then
>> I would be in favour of fixing the problems and re-publishing as promptly
>> as is practical. But as ever, this depends on the availability of
>> volunteers to do the work.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/11/2020 00:53, Felipe Viggiano wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> We often get e-mails giving suggestions on old published guides (version
>>>> 6.2, 5.2, and so on).
>>>> How do we handle these? Do we update those books or do we wait for the
>> next
>>>> version to come out?
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Felipe Viggiano
>>>> 
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