Hi Steve Em 18/12/2020 08:15, Steve Fanning escreveu: > Thanks for the minutes Olivier and I'm sorry that I couldn't attend the > meeting to discuss the points below. > > I note that the task to review / update Chapter 13 of the Calc Guide was > approved by the meeting. Is the assumption that I will perform that > review? If so, that's fine, but I don't want to step on anybody else's > toes.
Please be our guest and lead on the topic. > > With regards to the suggestion about reusing and adapting the contents > in Chapter 12, my gut felling is that Chapter 12 is already complex > enough. It provides a reasonable introduction to LibreOffice Basic > macros and goes on to provide more limited information about the other > available scripting languages (BeanShell, JavaScript and Python). At the > last issue, further information about working with VBA macros was added. > I think that's enough content in one chapter and we would probably be > better off moving the more complex macros from Chapter 13 to some other > location, away from the Calc Guide. Happy to discuss further if anybody > has other views... I fully agree. +1 Seasons greeting Olivier > > Regards, > > Steve > > > On 17/12/2020 19:10, Olivier Hallot wrote: >> Documentation Team Meeting Minutes December 17th 2020 at 18:00 UTC. >> >> Presents: Bala Muthu, Dave Barton, Olivier >> >> Telegram Channel >> https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ >> >> Live TDF Jitsi Room >> https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam >> >> Completed items: >> >> Pending items: >> + Change in workflow (DB) >> + Objective: rewrite/improve Calc Database functions Help (SF) >> + Update on database ranges >> + odtclean.py is not working any more on linux >> + Contributor guide >> + Needs reviews of Peter S on Chap 2. >> >> News: >> >> Topics and Discussion: >> >> - Editorial on Calc Guide Chap 13. (Olivier) >> + Chap 13 describe several database function/features accessed thru >> macros >> + Macros are a necesssary evil to replace custom missing features >> + but not in this case, macros listed replace UI (Uno) commands >> + turns chapter hard to read, unecessary complexity >> + suggest to drop macros and review chap 13 >> + suggest enhance DB functions description with good examples. >> + Suggest to reuse and adapt the contents in Chap 12 Macros (Dave) >> + Reuse DB functions contents from GSOD2020 (Steve Fanning, by >> mail) >> + Approved. >> >> - Collecting images in Guides (Peter S.) >> + No need to be concerned with storage >> + Older files can be in archive folder and even deleted >> + Cleanup older Guide archive files (Dave) >> >> - Our pt_BR experience with matecat.com for translating guides (Olivier) >> + comments, do's and don'ts >> + matecat.com (open source) >> + https://github.com/matecat/MateCat >> + Accept ODF files, preserve all formatting >> + Automatic translations, surprising hit rate and accuracy. >> + Can select industry area of source text >> + seems to borrow translation memory from public/open TM's >> + Nevertheless requires further review >> + spared 90% of the translation work >> + some funny mistakes though >> + Sometimes get confused with widget labels in sentence. >> + "OK" -> "All is good" >> + "Help" -> "Rescue" >> >> - Contributor Guide (Dave) >> + Plan to get chap 1 update in wiki by next meeting (Dave) >> >> Meeting ajourned >> >> Next meeting : *THURSDAY* January 7th 2021 at 18:00 UTC. > -- Olivier Hallot LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 LibreOffice – free and open source office suite: https://www.libreoffice.org Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data http://tdf.io/joinus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
