Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Getting Started 3.4 full book published

Hi Jean, *,
Am 31.03.2012 02:11, schrieb Jean Weber:

> We've been talking about two possibilities, each of them involving
> *not* attempting to update everything for each release.
> 1) Only update chapters where significant changes are required (UI
> looks very different; major new features; corrections to errors). In
> most cases, most chapters need only trivial, or no, changes to keep
> them current, although the writing in some of them can still be
> improved.
> 2) Combined with 1), only attempt to release a new version of each
> book once a year.

What do you think about taking the version 3.3 (or 3.4) as base 
document, no change of the content, and put in an own heading at the end 
of the chapter called "new in version 3.5". There will be a list or some 
descriptions of the changes. Only this piece must be written and be 
proofread. The front page will tell "Version 3.3 with explanations for 
3.5" or so.
We can also take these headings and make an own chapter for it.
With 3.6 there is then a next heading (or chapter).

So there is no need for reviewing the existing content and we can take 
the available wiki pages and informations.

Only if there are important changes or we find the persons to work on 
the whole book, we change the content and the screenshots.

The big work will then be with 4.0.

> But the main problem is that, although we have many people who say
> they are willing to do proofreading (copy-editing), that's not much
> help unless there are enough people who (a) know how to review the
> content for accuracy; (b) can use existing info (such as the list of
> new features) to know what to look for and incorporate changes when
> needed; and (c) have the time to do the updating and writing, to get
> things to the point where copy-editing (proofreading) is useful.

Maybe we try my proposal with the Calc Guide, make a wiki page with:
"What are the changes in Calc from 3.3 to 3.4 to 3.5", take in the 
structure of the Calc Guide and the informations we find in the wiki.

On a wiki page some more people can work with.

I'm ccing the document ml to get their opinions. At least we should take 
the whole discussion to that ml?!

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Grüße
k-j

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