Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.6 is approaching quickly!

[Gary Schnabl <gschnabl@swdetroit.com>]

On 6/14/2012 12:19 AM, Gary Schnabl wrote:
> On 6/13/2012 8:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Is the 3.6.x usable enough to completely skip all the remaining 3.5.x 
> > guides and go straight to the 3.6.x guides instead?
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> My dos centavos...
>
> Due to the very small number of writers available, LO should always 
> rewrite its current material at the beta version level, at least. 
> Better yet, write for the pre-release alpha stage and update the 
> chapters accordingly, as needed.
>
> Otherwise, when the LO docs project attempts to complete an 
> incremental edition, it will likely keep remaining an incremental 
> version or three behind--and possibly contain deprecated or even 
> worse, obsolete, material in addition to being untimely.
>
> Gary

I forgot to add...

The writings should be done much like the technical editing and 
rewriting we performed for Motorla/Freescale Semiconductor: using 
conditional text for the various material that differs. After a 
reasonable amount of time, the obsolete or deprecated material can be 
permanently deleted.

Gary

Gary

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