Re: [libreoffice-documentation] workflow on oooauthors

[Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 13:03 -0700, Andy Brown wrote:
> On Tue Nov 02 2010 11:30:21 GMT-0700 (PDT)  Michael Wheatland wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Carlos Jenkins <hastciberneo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I really think we are going to need a Dashboard on the website so users
> >> can accommodate their work or interest on their dashboard.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Note/Question: Should I cross-list?
> > 
> > Another question that needs to be asked, should we have a document
> > checkout for the workflow to ensure that only one person is working on
> > any given document at once?
> 
> The current setup has a "flag" that is set for "retract" to show that 
> someone else is working on the document, though it does not prevent 
> someone else from downloading.
> 
> > Also how is community consensus reached as to when a document is ready
> > for external publishing?
> > A democratic review system for proposed changes on final review
> > documents should be pretty easy to setup (Voting API). For an example
> > on this type of system have a look at Ubuntu Brainstorm, slightly
> > different concept but could work just as well.
> > 
> > Thanks for the info so far.
> 
> There is no community consensus on when a document it ready for external 
> publishing.  Right now, Jean Weber, the volunteer co-lead makes that 
> call.  I see no problem with this setup as Jean has the expertise to 
> make the call, and I have seen no complaints from any other members.  I 
> do not feel a vote would be in the best interest of the project.
> 
> Have a look at the www.oooauthors.org , on the entry page is a dcoument 
> called  Introducing OOoAuthors  it details how the project works.
> 

Although people seem happy with me acting as "publisher" for the OOo
user guides, it really would be much better if each book had its own
coordinator/editor/publisher, both to spread the work around and so
people could cover for each other if someone is unavailable for more
than a few days (illness, travels, other work or family commitments).

The idea was to have an experienced technical editor (or similar) to act
in the role of coordinator/editor/publisher for each book, but the other
people who filled that role in the early days have moved on to other
things.

BTW, the OOo *developer* docs are not handled through OOoAuthors; those
docs are primarily wiki-based and the processes for review and approval
are different.

--Jean


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