Re: Proposed Process for Documentation

2021-01-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/15/2021 1:01 AM, F Campos Costero wrote: > Keith - Have you looked into using Git with the odt file format. I did a > quick search and it seems that Git can only handle a plain text version of > the document if you want to see a Diff between two versions. So you could > see which words had cha

User guide for AOO

2021-01-21 Thread Jean Weber
I'm thinking of updating my self-published “Getting Started” book on AOO and making it available to the community in free PDF and low-cost printed copy, whether you choose to link to it or publicise it in any way. It could be dual-licensed CC-BY & GPL, but not A2. The v3.4 version of this book beg

Timeframe for release of AOOv4.2?

2021-01-21 Thread Jean Weber
I’ve lost track of where to find info on the next AOO release, and I’m not motivated to dig through the dev list to try to find the info. Can someone point me to it? Jean

RE: Timeframe for release of AOOv4.2?

2021-01-21 Thread Dennis Hamilton
Jean, I just saw that a release candidate for 4.1.9 is being reviewed. I only looked on the dev list for January 2021 😊. -Original Message- From: Jean Weber Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 15:42 To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Timeframe for release of AOOv4.2? I’ve lost tr

RE: Proposed Process for Documentation

2021-01-21 Thread Dennis Hamilton
Keith, My impression is that everyone was waiting for you. I assume you have bounced your ideas off the PMC. If you set up an off-ASF public GitHub project, there are a number of things you need to deal with. (I am assuming you can't do it on-ASF because it violates the rule about non-Apach

Re: Proposed Process for Documentation

2021-01-21 Thread Jean Weber
Just to clarify: I have zero interest in being involved in any official or group documentation effort. The only reason I mention the ODFAuthors licensing is because that’s what existing 3.x docs (and my own books) are under. Any reuse/revision/updates cannot be under A2. Otherwise, my preferences a

Re: Proposed Process for Documentation (2)

2021-01-21 Thread Jean Weber
The current LibreOffice docs-production organisation is only slightly changed from the way OOoAuthors did things at OpenOffice. (OOoAuthors rebranded as ODFAuthors in an attempt to include both OOo and LO - and any other spin-offs, in case they occurred. It later transformed into the official LO Do

New Doc Volunteer

2021-01-21 Thread Robert Farrell
Hi all, I’m a technical writer who has worked on documentation for medical devices and software. I have been using OpenOffice for several years for other projects, and have always appreciated the open source nature of the software. I have never worked on a project where documentation is licens

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2021-01-21 Thread F Campos Costero
Hello Robert, Thank you very much for volunteering! I'll keep this message very brief because I am at the end of a long work day and not feeling very coherent. Regarding your question, it is probably best to consider what the likely situation will be rather than all possible licensing scenarios.

Re: New Doc Volunteer

2021-01-21 Thread Jean Weber
AOO does not allow CC licensed material. That’s a major part of the problem of reuse. However, the body of documentation is also licensed under GPL, which is sort-of allowed, with restrictions. Jean On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 15:52 F Campos Costero wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Thank you very much for