On Tue, 2010-08-24, Jennifer Gutsche wrote: > ... I was initially confused by the > two separate logins for OOoAuthors and OOo. It took me a while to > realize I was dealing with two different sites, OOo's Documentation > Project and OOoAuthors. There is information pertinent to newbies on > both sites, but it seems to be organized in a way I was having trouble > making sense of... some here and some there. I'm sure there's some > history there behind how and why the OOoA site came to be. It'd be nice > to know it.
Actually there are *three* websites where the Docs project is located: OOo, OOoAuthors, and the OOo Documentation wiki. The OOo Docs project has been evolving over the years in terms of the type of documentation and the form in which it is provided. The original OOo website used (and still does) a cumbersome (and difficult for many people to use) method of tracking documentation, so OOoAuthors was set up with an easier-to-use interface. A few years ago the wiki was set up, as an even more accessible way for contributors to collaborate. At present all documents are provided to users by means of the wiki, but those docs may be produced through OOoAuthors or the wiki, or even privately. Users can also search for info from the OOo website, but in most cases the results of their search are located on the wiki. Documents on the wiki may be in one or more forms: wiki format itself, PDF, and/or ODT. It's important to understand that the *means of production* of a document does not immediately equate to the *form in which it is delivered to users*. For example, the user guides are produced and maintained in ODT format through the OOoAuthors website, and are then exported as PDF and converted to wiki format for multiple delivery formats. On the other hand, most of the docs for *developers* are produced and maintained in wiki format, although also available in ODT and PDF. This difference in production is due to the preferences of those people who do most of the work on the docs. More later... boarding for my flight from Moscow (Russia) to Singapore will be called any moment. Time to pack up. Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
