On 10/01/2008 10:11 AM, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Some of you will recall that I was writing a few short documents with > OOo in the recent months. The docs were reports in the field of > engineering. It was an experiment to see how OOo fares in this respect. > OOo is, IMHO, more popular with non-technical writers in the sense that > work on features that are most required by technical writers appear to > be have low priority for the developers. Having said that, I have had > positive feedback from developers on the few issues I have filed on OOo > issues website. That was very encouraging. > > Based on the experience of those few documents (in OOo 2.4, did not try > 3.0, might do so when the final version is released), here are some of > my observations (I have posted about these issues within the last few > months in more detail, so you will have to hunt for them if you have any > questions about them): [snip good feedback]
All good points & thanks for posting your findings. Given that OOo is very much driven by Sun and other developers, I should think that your participation in the OOo projects will be welcome. Please have a look at: http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html and find 1 or more that you think you can help with. Even if you don't take on a project status, you should at least review the projects mail lists and participate in those that are of interest to you. For instance, you might paticipate in the Bibliographic project/mail list: http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/ http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList I'd also suggest looking up issues that you mention (eps for instance) on the OOo Issue Tracker. Example: <http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/servlets/Search?artifact=issuezilla+issue&query=eps&resultsPerPage=40&scope=domain> [With a little practice you can learn to refine the searches to search by release etc.] Once you've found an issue(s) that is of interest to you, _participate_ in the issue by adding comments, testing, confirming, voting, etc. You never know, you may just help resolve an issue. Also have a look at: http://contributing.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
