Hi Christian, On 2010-11-25 at 22:24 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > Hm... how will the help be exported? What's easiest for you? MediaWiki, any > > other interface? > > The question is whether you want people to just read the content > there, or whether you want people to update content. I'd say: provide > only readonly access, maybe with a commenting feature, but keep the > editing to pootle. Let me actually take this to the ML, because this is a really good question, and I probably did not explain much about the WikiHelp so far. So first - what is WikiHelp? It is going to be a help.libreoffice.org site, where the LibreOffice help will be stored. The intention is that it will be a Wiki - because the Wiki concept and format is widely used for information exchange, and because it is sooooo easy to edit and improve. For the first cut, it will be read-only, to debug the converter; I'll announce it in a few days for feedback + testing. In the long run [around LibreOffice final ;-)], we should allow editing there when 'good enough', so that the wikihelp becomes the source of the help for LibreOffice, instead of the xhp files. I am still doing the final experiments there, but the hope is that I'll get it to the state where the developer can just commit code that should have some help, provide a stub article, and the first time a user hits that, she/he can update it with more information. And the off-line (installed) help will be generated from this wikihelp in the next releases. Additionally, thanks to wiki being versioned, we will still be able to merge changes from OOo. > > I can imagine that getting the help files into a wiki > > require some manual work, so we should chose the web interface that's > > easiest for us to use. :-) > > Simplest would probably just a small xstl conversion to html of the > application help files. The tooling is now written, just needs testing and polishing: cd clone/help/helpcontent2 ./help-to-wiki.py And you'll see the current result in a wiki/ subdir. Whoever interested in this - patches appreciated! :-) Regards, Kendy _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
