There is a stylesheet and some help files for documentators, we should review them and update them if possible: http://documentation.openoffice.org
You would see a wishlist as well as Dashboard: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard This would need to be discussed how can we refresh it with new information. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:13 PM, De Angela Jackson < deangela.m.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. Just adding my two cents: > > I never knew that you guys had a tracking document. So, maybe it > doesn't get used because no one knows it's there? > > I like Rania's idea of a spreadsheet--something up front where it's > easily found, and everyone can see what's going on. > > I had noticed too that there are a lot of things that one person might > have started but never completed. Why not hold volunteers to task? > Have them do only one thing at a time and not start on another until > the first one is completed and okay'd. This could give the project > more focus and at least give the appearance of progress. > > Of course, people like me are part of the problem too. A lot of > volunteers really don't know what's going on or what to do, and we > don't necessarily have the technical writing backgrounds. I don't > recall ever seeing a rubric of what exactly should be in each section, > so you kind of leave us bewildered while at the same time lose > uniformity. Each section should have A, B, C, and D regardless of > topic, and with a basic rubric there would be less time holding the > hands of us n00bs. > > Just some thoughts. > > > De Angela > > On 4/29/15, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > > jonathon wrote: > >> On 29/04/15 17:09, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > >> > > Jonathon; > >>> We have a tracking document that is supposed to be used so all members > of > >>> the team know where things are and what is needed but it rarely gets > >>> used. > >> > >> I'd suggest the tracking document is rarely used, because nobody is > >> creating documentation. > >> > > Not entirely true. Work has been on certain pieces of the documentation > > but the status document has never been updated, and no mention of the > > work having been done ever came to the list. > >>> do we really want to have the documentation done "in house"; and if we > do > >>> is the process we started 2+ years ago still the correct way to go? > >> > >> How much do you know about documentation, when the project was under the > >> auspices of Sun, and later Oracle? > >> > > I know a fair amount about how the documentation was done then. > >> That history has a lot to do with the lack of documentation for Apache > >> OpenOffice today. > > > > The former process may have some bearing on the problem, but more recent > > history also has a great deal to do with it. > > > > Regards > > Keith > >> > >> jonathon > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
