Hi, On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 01:50:20AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > It seems interesting in a number of aspects; perhaps here's a way to > raise the profile & quality of our own programmability documentation > (by going there, or by cherry-picking good ideas)?
Hmm, I dont see much difference here between "stack exchange" and "stack exchange documentation". What exactly makes the difference there? Because I dont seem much (yet?). Also what is the difference between SE and ask.libreoffice.org from a feature perspective? For example, askubuntu.com is running on the SE stack, not on askbot -- but TBH I dont see much difference featurewise. I assume its mostly done for visibility. In general, I _love_ the idea to move our documentation focus to dynamic content on a platform that is easy to contribute to -- be that SE or askbot. That is _way_ more relevant and a much better fit to our development model than aiming for dead tree editions of documentation. The thing that askbot/SE misses vs. classical documentation is that a structure beyond one topic and a way to focus and highlight a set of well-maintained content. A possible approach to this would be to have an index of highly relevant and well maintained content (this index could be in e.g. in the TDF wiki linking to various askbot/SE topics). The problem with askbot/SE/wikis is not the so much providing good content, it is making this content discoverable (dead tree documentation is even worse at this, though) and not sink in outdated and irrelevant content. So -- a draft proposal: Lets have an index of highly relevance topics somewhere (e.g. on the Wiki) and link the content by topic/chapter to well maintained and edited pages on askbot/SE whatever. @Olivier: Unless there are better proposal on how to work on this, could take up this rough idea and with the help of others grind a diamond out of it? Thorsten is right, we should any inspiration we can from SE. But even more importantly we should focus on getting dynamic content up in shape, it is _way_ more important than printable, static dead documentation. @Others: Open for better ideas of course! Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice