On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 04:54 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: > On 10/6/2010 03:28, Michele Zarri wrote: > > On 06/10/10 04:23, Andy Brown wrote: > >> On Tue Oct 05 2010 20:03:33 GMT-0700 (PDT) Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > >>> > >>> I've been thinking about this some more. (1) Our published books are > >>> current for v3.2 (except for the Impress > >>> Guide, which Michele Zarri just uploaded part of today). (2) We WILL > >>> be publishing "complete new guides" because of OOo > >>> rebranding and other planned changes to correct errors, add missing > >>> info, and improve explanations. (3) The question is: will we make > >>> these new guides cover V3.3 only, or > >>> include both V3.2 and V3.3 info as I described in an earlier note? > >>> (4) If make the new guides for V3.3 only, then instead of replacing the > >>> old guides, we should keep the V3.2 books and have both available. This > >>> would work easily for the ODT/PDF editions, but perhaps not so easily > >>> for the wikified version (which has other problems as well, as discussed > >>> on a separate thread). > >> > >> Jean, I was going to suggest that the v3.2 books be locked and use for > >> those that use the 3.2. Update and move forward with the v3.3 books. > >> > >> Just my 2cents. > >> > >> Andy > >> > > > > Hello Jean, > > > > I agree with Andy: we should freeze the development of the guides for > > 3.2 and move to 3.3. > > Inserting the tip/note/caution table with New in this version/changed > > etc... was tried in the past (between 1.4 and 2.0?) and it took quite a > > while to get rid of the "legacy". > > The use of variables for conditional paragraphs is also a bit too much > > to handle in my opinion even for .odt. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Michele > > > Concur: archive the old, and on with the new. > > As for the wiki, I suggest that we need a version-marking system, with a > bug on the page. If we make that show in the edit summaries, then users > can easily access whatever version they want :-) Nothing is lost on the > wiki. >
My experience on a project that parallels this one is that the conditional paragraphs are good for making a teacher's edition, but cumbersome for versions. We find it easier to freeze a version and move on to a new version. Anthony
