Hi Drew,
From: Drew Jensen <drewjensen.inbox@gmail.com>
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:54:56 -0500
Great. Well the changes I made to Chaper 2 and Chapter 3 (other email
on that) are simply what was talked about in the meeting and just a
start, which is why it went straight back to the server.
No problem, it's all work that needs to be done, so thank you.
I won't touch Chapter 5, given you have started already.
Chapter 5 & 6 kinda' overlap' with each other. When we have consensus
on the template, I will try to get both updated.
Hmmpf - is there a Chapter 4 somewhere?
No. A very long time ago I asked the same question of Jean and she
explained what her intention for chapter 4 was. I am sure I kept her
answer, but I will have to scratch around in my archives and post back
later.
Thanks,
Drew
Cheers
Dave
I managed to dredge the following extracts up from my archives.
Back in 2011 Jean wrote:
The chapters I have planned for this book are as follows. Suggestions
for other topics, and volunteers to write Chapter 4 and 7, are
welcome. I can hurl together a first draft of Chapter 5 from
pre-existing material, and Chapter 6 is essentially what's in the user
guide chapter template.
1) Joining the Documentation Team (this chapter)
2) Producing LibreOffice User Guides (draft available in Resources)
3) Using Alfresco (being updated from Jeremy's "bootcamp" doc)
4) Blogging and social media
5) Style guide for writers (including preferred terminology)
6) Using the documentation templates (includes list of paragraph and
character styles and when to use them, plus other info currently part
of the user guide chapter template itself)
7) Producing other documentation (tutorials, howtos, administrators’
guide, etc.)
In reply to my question about Chapter 4 in 2017 Jean wrote:
Ch4 was, I think, intended for info about the wiki, or using social
media, or something else about contributing other than to the user
guides. When I started revising the guide last year, I took it out and
renumbered Ch5 & 6 to be 4&5, but never got around to revising them.
The draft of Ch7 is, I think, now obsolete.
I think the guide should have info on contributing to the Help system,
and something on how the Docs team fits into the overall LO project.
Regards
Dave