Throwing in another 2 cents (I'm up to 4!): Why not try to get an objective outside opinion?
http://idratherbewriting.com/ <--pretty good blog from a technical writer who wasn't always a technical writer. He might be able to look at the whole situation and maybe give some advice and direction if asked. Who knows? De Angela On 4/30/15, jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/04/15 15:29, Regina Henschel wrote: > >>And you cannot blame the people, who write for LibreOffice. There are > so few persons working on LibreOffice documentation, that they cannot > follow the changes in LibreOffice soon. > > I'll grant that ODFAuthors doesn't have many people. Regardless, that > point is irrelevant here. (Well, it is relevant, to the point of > considering why ODFAuthors isn't actively involved in AOo documentation.) > >> It is not reasonable to expect that these people care about Apache > OpenOffice. > > Some of the people in ODFAuthors were willing to either write original > documentation where needed, and/or modify/adapt LibO documentation to > reflect the changes/differences in AOo. Do note the use of the past > tense here. > >> If we decide to use ODF Authors, it would be possible without problems. > > Then when did most of the ODFAuthors resign from the AOo documentation > project? > > More pointedly, why did the former head of the AOo Documentation project > resign? (Need I point out that the wiki page lists that individual as > the current head of AOo documentation.) > >> But working with ODF Authors means, to follow a special workflow. And when >> authors do not like that workflow, you cannot force them to use ODF >> Authors. > > Every organization that creates documentation, has a workflow. > Sometimes that workflow is clearly defined, outlined, and includes > everything that the content creator needs, in order to produce quality > output. Sometimes that workflow is not only not defined, but manages to > omit everything that the content creator needs, in order to produce any > output. > > Whilst one can't force authors to follow a specific workflow, a clearly > defined, rational workflow process makes it much easier for authors to > create their content. > > The process that ODFAuthors uses, is based on their experience of > creating documentation. Some aspects can be exasperating, but on the > whole even those aspects are beneficial to the content creator. > > Keith wrote: > > Johnathon; > >>If you have concrete proposals to avoid what you obviously saw as flaws > in the previous efforts now would be the time to make them, > > What I'm saying, is to look at the history of the project, from the days > that it was StarOffice. Look at how documentation (both quality and > quantity) has increased, and decreased over that time, and, more > importantly where and how it was produced. > > To see what is, in effect,an entire documentation team, resign thrice, > indicates that major issues keep re-ocurring. Furthermore, it can't be > said that it was the same few people who were unhappy, because at least > two of those documentation teams had no individuals in common. > I'm not sure how much, if any overlap, there was between the third of > those teams, and either of the other two. > > jonathon > > * English - detected > * English > > * English > > <javascript:void(0);> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
