Hello David,
> > Historcally, the question has been raised a couple of years ago in
> > the ooo project. The answer was to use the format in which most
> > people preferred to contribute (which seems pretty rational). Both
> > possibilities were offered, but AFAIK the community has preferred
> > ODT for writing User Guides by far, whereas Dev Documentation has
> > been mainly produced in wiki form.
> >
> > I don't think that a formal decision has been made. Up to now,
> > there is no official (or inofficial) team in charge of the doc
> > project. So who should make a decision? Things are just evolving
> >
>
> Jean Hollis Weber seems to be active in documentation, and seems to
> have been an old-timer in the OOo project (if I'm not mistaken)...
> Maybe he's the kind-of de facto lead for the moment?
Jean is a "She", and she has led the OOoAuthors project since it's inception
and if you had done a bit of research you would have found out that she is a
highly respected Technical Editor and a published Author on things OOo. And
I'm not so sure she would get off being referred to as an "OldTimer"
Frankly I see no reason why we don't use OOoAuthors as the place to produce
documentation. The software in general will be the same with minor
differences. The challenge for the LibreO team will be keeping track of and
documenting those differences. OOoAuthors is not part of OOo it is an
independent group that happens to contribute to the OOo documentation project.
Any fork or version based on the OOo source could use the OOoAuthors Manuals.
As the ooo community as a whole did not follow the transition to LibO,
my feeling is that the community here is kind of starting from scratch.
We should take the chance and try to establish our own identity, leads
and processes. IMHO, of course.
To me, the most productive thing people could do is join the OOoAuthors team
and contribute there, then take the product and edit and add to suit for
LibreO. For instance pdf import is installed by default, a chapter for that
or standard extensions would have to be added and so on.
But maybe I'm wrong, so don't take my words for the only truth possible.
Jean, you're always welcome to take/continue your role as doc lead here,
too
I'm so glad that you have the Authority to grant this.
cheers
GL