On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 06:03, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did a *sampling* just now and I found all of these addresses used as > Feedback locations: > > [email protected] > Impress Guide 3.3, 2011-08-27
Oops! That's an error. My bad. > [email protected] > The on-line versions of ODF 2.x (Fourth edition) documentation > The Getting Started Guide 3.2, 2010-02-02 > There is no user-faq project on OpenOffice.org at this time. references to > http://user-faq.openoffice.org yield an Oracle Network not found page. It is > not clear where the e-mail address ends up. AFAIK, any mail sent to that address goes into the ether and is never seen again. This and the item below are the main examples of obsolete addresses still lurking in our docs, that we've not attempted to fix retroactively... though we should have done GS3.2 even if 2.x is too old to worry about. > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/ > Unresolvable link to "OOoAuthors Guides page" from the 2.x Getting Started > Guide page on the wiki. Likewise for the additional 2.x User Guides Another long-obsolete address that we've not attempted to fix retroactively. > http://stores.lulu.com/opendocument > Linked from the wiki as "Friends of OpenDocument" for purchase of hard-copy > versions from lulu.com. (These links will have to go. It is better to > confine that to pages at ODFAuthors.) Why do they need to go? Because they contravene Apache policy? This info is provided as a service to users who may wish to have a printed copy. If the links go, then users who want printed copies either won't know they exist (and won't go to ODFAuthors site to find out, or think to search at Lulu.com) or (IMO worse) they will search at Amazon.com and find (overpriced) copies being sold by someone completely unrelated, who does not return a penny of their profits to the OOo project... but the users won't know that, and they'll buy those copies. FOD, on the other hand, holds the money in trust for spending to benefit the project. AFAIK, this is allowed under Apache rules. If the links are not allowed, I'd like to determine whether we can find some acceptable way to let users know that printed copies exist. --Jean
