Keith, I pledge to support you however I can.
I’ve been thinking about www.openoffice.org What do you think about using markdown? Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On May 30, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more > time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the > drawbacks is that most people that have started to help have left as > there has been very limited availability of mentoring. I do not see this > changing but I am hoping that by defining a new process we can reduce > the dependency on mentoring. > > One idea for this would require that the MediaWiki extension be made > functional again. This would allow for using Writer to create the source > which could be stored in the git repository and then be transferred to > the mwiki for easy online access. By storing the source in the > repository it would give us better revision control over the > documentation. Plus it may help relieve the mentoring problem as many > more people are familiar with using Writer. > > Another would be to use Docbook, though this is not as appealing as I > have no familiarity with it and it appears that there is a steep > learning curve to its use and that would be a disadvantage to attracting > new people. > > I look forward to any other suggestions that could move this effort > along as it has languished for far to long. > > Regards > Keith > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
