On Sep 5, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Jean Weber wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think Rob's suggestions for "boldly going where OOo Docs have not >>>>> gone before" are good ones, but they won't happen immediately. In the >>>>> short term (for the next release of the software), we are most likely >>>>> to have a choice between updated CC-BY-licensed user guides, or no >>>>> user guides at all. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Take a look at the Subversion home page and the link they have on the >>>> left. We could do something like that if we wanted. That is a good >>>> short-term approach. It could even work longer term, though I think >>>> it is a growth-limiting choice. >>> >>> >>> I think that is the most workable solution for the short term. We >>> discussed it here some time ago and I at least looked at the >>> Subversion home page and link and thought it was a good way to go. >>> >>> However, I am not sure where we should put the documents so they could >>> be linked from the AOOo website. ODFAuthors is a production site, not >>> really suitable in its present state for delivery of documents IMO. I >>> suppose we could redesign this page >>> http://www.odfauthors.org/openoffice.org and add whatever other pages >>> might be needed. >>> >> >> What is the concern with hosting the doc at ODFAuthors? Is the >> load/bandwidth a concern? If so, one alternative would be to upload >> the doc to Apache-Extra.org. Projects there are hosted by Google >> Code, and also agree to these guidelines: >> >> http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html >> >> This is a good option for things that are not part of the project, but >> somehow related to the project. >> >> -Rob >> > > My main concern is that I don't think the design of the website is > really suitable for consumers of the docs. It's set up to be a > production site. Past experience suggests that trying to get it to > serve both purposes will mean it serves neither well.
> > Apache-Extra.org sounds good; I'll read the guidelines to see if I can > spot anything of concern to me (not that I expect to). We can always have web pages at both incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ and support.openoffice.org/ link directly to resources at odfauthors.org/ and apache-extras/. Which depends on whether the link is about authoring or downloading documentation. Regards, Dave > > --Jean
