Hi Peter,
I brought this up because this requirement was present in the previous
version of the Contributor's Guide. When I first read the guide and then
started my first chapter update, I created some new images and saved them
in an ODG file. Later on I tried to figure out where to upload the ODG file
into NextCloud by looking for other ODG files, but found none.
Now, my opinion is that saving ODG files is only useful if the figure has
lots of annotations (arrows, callouts, etc). In such cases, reviewers can
edit the image and update annotations. In cases where the images are simply
a screenshot of a dialog without any annotation, then it's not really
necessary to upload the image to NextCloud because it would be very simple
to take a new screenshot if necessary.
As for the use of ODG by translators, maybe these files are not very
helpful to them. Consider a case where there is a dialog screenshot (the
dialog is in English) and lots of annotations in English too. A translator
will have to take a new screenshot and change the annotations manually.
Hence, the existence of an ODG file wouldn't be very helpful. We could ask
their opinion on this matter.
I think we have two possible paths:
1) We can drop this requirement from the Contributor's guide;
2) We could improve this procedure to provide more directions on how to
handle images. For example, for each chapter ODT file there could be an ODG
file with the same name containing all the images prepared for the chapter.
We could also highlight that this should be done only for images that have
annotations.
What path do you think is best?
Regards,
Rafael Lima