Documentation Team Meeting Minutes October 8th 2020 at 18:00 UTC.

Documentation Team Meeting Minutes October 8th 2020 at 18:00 UTC.

Presents: Travis Stewart, Dave Barton, Rafael Lima, Olivier, Soren
Jonsson, Emiliano Vavassori

Telegram Channel
https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ

Live TDF Jitsi Room
https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam

Completed items:
    + Front and back covers for 7.0 release (OH)

Pending items:
    + Change in workflow

News:
    PLease come to LibreOffice Conference 2020 next week !
    https://conference.libreoffice.org

Topics and Discussion:
+ Suggestions for Database Functions (S Fanning)
    + Answered in the same document, need finishing touch (OH)
    + Objective: rewrite/improve Calc Database functions Help

+ Seasons of Doc update (OH)
     + Wiki on Calc Functions
     + E-learning (hosted by LibreItalia)

+ Covers for Guides
     + Overall result appreciated (all)
     + Nextcloud Folder in duplicate (Dave)
        + Archive folder /Cover7/
        + Keep folder /cover7.0/
     + Credits to Rizal Mutaqin and Drew Jensen in chapters
     + Covers are memory intense, slow to handle/render (RL)
         + hi-res using SVG (OH)
         + Can we use PNG? (RL)
           + up to Guide team discretion (OH)
           + please use a copy of source to play with (OH)

+ Math Guide (Rafael Lima)
     + Like the book, very complete
     + I write Academic tech papers with math equations,
        + Math is important
     + Adding new contents and examples for 7.0

+ Other topics
     + NC performance ?
         + Sometimes slow, but not so often (DB)
         + Editing with LOOL is very slow (DB)
         + Issue with copy/move several files at once with web UI
             + learned to do it one by one.
         + No issue in download (RL)
            + LOOL is slow in FFox but better in Chrome (RL)
     + New Workflow
         + Not changed directory structure yet (DB)
         + About to finish Chap 3 of Contrib Guide
         + Later I'll mirror in wiki (DB)
     + Writing Style for help (Travis)
         + Are there recommendations for writing? (Travis)
         + Contributor Guide, Chap 4

Olivier Hallot kirjoitti 9.10.2020 klo 0.57:

Documentation Team Meeting Minutes October 8th 2020 at 18:00 UTC.

      + API documentation (Soren Jonsson)
         + sent mail to doc list, no answer, will resend
         + API doc is hard for end-users, occasional macro programmer (OH)
         + Was writen for developers, familiar to object-oriented
languages (RL)
         + Tried to code calc cell border in python, took time (RL)
         + Many Help pages on python by LibreOfficiant, please check (OH)
         + Interested in topic too (Travis)
            + there is a working group on scripting devel and doc (OH)

The old OOo dev guide will be imported to TDF wiki. The project has been stalled due to lack of volunteer time.

Ilmari