Hi Jörg,
On 12/30/20 1:42 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
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From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:55 PM
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?
Hi Jörg,
On 12/29/20 3:54 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote:
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How do we want to define "outdated pages"?
Many pages are seemingly(!) outdated, but in reality they
are needed (e.g. for the daily voluntary support on mailing
lists or in forums).
Look e.g. at the extremely important pages with technical
info for the creation of extensions:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extens
ions/Extensions
These pages are outdated in parts, but still there is no
more current information.
Can you help identify where the outdated content in this section is?
technical, yes, I can. But there are practical problems:
It is hardly possible to identify obsolete content 'in one piece', because that
would amount to working as follows:
-read a piece of the Developersguide (e.g. one paragraph).
-knowing what is outdated and marking/updating it _or_ if you don't know
immediately what is outdated, checking it by testing it
This way of working would take a lot of time.
It would be more practical to mark outdated things whenever _you_ discover them
while using the Developersguide.
But this is a continuous process.
And there is, for me personally, a problem:
I work daily in the voluntary end user support (on
users...@openoffice.apache.org and in the forum de.openoffice.info) and I work,
since a long time, on the update of the German end user documentation - if I
should update the Developersguide, I would have to give up this work, I don't
think I want to give it up.
Okay, I thought you may have a specific example.
We all contribute where we a happiest :)
I think for something like the developer guides (Basic included) that it
is more likely that a paragraph may be outdated rather than a whole page
and how do we also account for that.
And we need a way that someone who can and wants to fix things can find
them. Tags, keywords, etc.
Best regards,
Carl
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