Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Weird stuff department: Why everything needs last-minute checking

[Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>]

Sorry about the delaying replying. You are talking about the Docs Team's blog on Wordpress.com, I assume. I'm happy to add you there but I don't usually grant admin privileges until someone has participated for while. Is there a special reason why you want or need admin access to the blog?

Jean

On 07/06/2012, at 5:27, Lailah <lailahfsf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry about the question but...  Somebody gave me admin 
> permissions for these wordpress?  My user is viajeramental.
> 
> 
> Thanks and apologies
> Sylvia
> 
> 
> On Mar 05 Jun 2012 21:52:41 Jean Weber escribió:
>> I usually blog about new stuff on libodocs.wordpress.com so it 
> gets on
>> the planet, but other publicity is good too. And you are so right:
>> anyone can pick up things like this, if they pay attention. Don't 
> even
>> need to know a thing about the software!
>> 
>> --Jean
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Tom Davies 
> <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi :)
>>> A lot of this could be picked up by anyone, however new to 
> the team.  It
>>> just needs someone other than the author (or whoever has 
> just done a lot
>>> of work on the chapter/guide).  Hazel is brilliant and goes into 
> a LOT of
>>> detail but perhaps we need a more informal "quick squint 
> test" or
>>> something.
>>> 
>>> I think this team does usually do this anyway.  Usually when 
> chapters or
>>> books get uploaded to the wiki i make a point of telling the 
> Users List
>>> and Tim of KrackedPress fame so that they can have a quick 
> look or come
>>> back with problems they spot.  They hardly ever grumble 
> about any of the
>>> documentation tho so i got lazy and  didn't do this with Draw 
> or Impress.
>>> 
>>> Someone had a brilliant idea of making an announcement to 
> the entire
>>> community and it might be a good idea to do that when guides 
> are uploaded
>>> to the wiki?  It still might be  good idea to let soem of the lists 
> know
>>> when individual chapters are released but when guides are 
> uploaded an
>>> community wide announcement would be great. Apols and 
> regards from
>>> Tom :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- On Mon, 4/6/12, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Weird stuff department: 
> Why
>>> everything needs last-minute checking To:
>>> Documentation@global.libreoffice.org
>>> Date: Monday, 4 June, 2012, 1:40
>>> 
>>> The ToC in the Draw 3.4 Guide is missing the Preface and 
> hence has
>>> wrong page numbers for the rest of the book, but the really 
> weird bit
>>> is that the page numbering restarts in Chapter 3. The actual 
> page
>>> numbers in the document are correct. I'm not sure what 
> caused that
>>> weirdness (other than the ToC not being updated before the 
> PDF was
>>> created), but I certainly should have noticed it. And I probably
>>> should have put the "release candidate" out for others to 
> check, but I
>>> didn't...
>>> 
>>> This is not a big deal, but it does point out the need for us to 
> have
>>> more quality assurance on our books... but that QA needs to 
> be on a
>>> fast turnaround as well as thorough. I wonder who might have 
> noticed
>>> the ToC was wrong? (Hazel, probably.) Does anyone else 
> actually look
>>> through a ToC when final-proofing a book? I usually do, when 
> it's
>>> someone else's book; but when it's a book I've done, I just 
> don't
>>> notice things.
>>> 
>>> When I get a chance, I'll regenerate the ToC and the PDF and 
> hope
>>> nothing else goes weird. ;-)
>>> 
>>> --Jean
>>> 
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