On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 19:22 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> It might help to be explicit about what you want to do with the user >> guides. Are you: >> >> 1) Looking to have a link from the Apache OOo web site to the user guides? >> >> 2) Having the publication form of the user guides hosted by the Apache >> OOo website? >> >> 3) Periodically contributing the user guides to Apache OOo for >> inclusion in a release? > > 1) and/or 2) Yes, if AOOo in interested in either of those options. Or > hosted (as ODT/PDF) on the wiki, with links to the wiki from the > website. We would be happy with any of those arrangements. >
Did you see how Apache Subversion was handling its user guide? http://subversion.apache.org/ (see in the side panel on left) That might be a good model for how an external user guide project can relate to an Apache project. This looks more like option #1 above. > 3) No. I do not envision user guides being included in a release. They > never have been, and I think it would be impractical because they are > never completed in time for inclusion in a release. > > And repeating from another note from me, just to keep the info together: > > We would welcome participation by any and all members of AOOo, and > oversight and approval by the AOOo (P)PMC at any stage, as long as we > don't have to use SVN or other unfamiliar tools during the document > production process. We just want to continue using our own website and > production methods. > > --Jean > >
