On Wed, 2010-08-25, Clayton wrote:

> On 08/25/2010, Nat Kononenko wrote:

> > Right now the whole documenting process seems to me  a bit confusing, since
> > there is no practice of _assigning_ chapters to individual users. It seems
> > that some chapters get all the attention while others are left practically
> > untouched. 

> The current tasks for the User guides can be found here:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/User_Guides

I had been using a GoogleDocs spreadsheet to track work on the docs, but
no one else put information on it, so it was always out of date. So then
I started the task list on the wiki that Clayton mentions.

We have not been assigning chapters to people, mainly because most
contributors don't feel comfortable working on topics they are not at
least somewhat familiar with. This does have the unfortunate effect you
notice: some chapters get a lot of attention but others get little or
none. I do send occasional notes to the list asking for volunteers to
work on specific neglected chapters.

Finding *writers* for neglected topics has been mostly unsuccessful,
despite calls for help. In some cases people show up, express
enthusiasm, accept a topic, and then are not heard from again. Finding
indexers has been a similar problem. Fortunately we have several good
reviewers and editors.

Jean
-- 
Jean Hollis Weber
Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project


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