G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
I'm willing to give some help to the dev project. I'm almost exclusively
interested in templates (more in Impress Templates than in other). I'm
also quite interested in the website part presenting templates.
Here is what I think I could do for the project:
1/ Revamp the templates page, with screenshots and a more modern way of
presentation. No offense intended, but I believe the current
presentation looks not good at all. People are are first looking at
In this context I'd like to raise two points:
Why are templates part of the documentation project? Shouldn't they
rather be with art.oo.o?
No. Templates are here from the beginning. If Marketing, and hence the
subproject art, feel that theirs is a better place, the leads of the
marketing project can ask.
I am not asking why they were where they are. I am asking if
templates are a logical part of documentation.
I would like to suggest a revamp of the doc.oo.o site in the
near future. No offense, Gerry, you're doing a great job, but I
think we should separate the portals for users seeking help and
contributors offering help more clearly.
I am not alone, am I? Seems like it most days. There are many observers
who, if they have the time and energy, could ask for a development role
and take over the maintenance of the webpages.
With respect to portals, I think that the documentation hosting of
On-line Help is a bit counter-productive but it too is historical.
I don't get how online help should not be hosted with docs
while templates are? If online help isn't documentation,
what else?
What is the doc project's purpose? Provide help for users
of OOo in form of documentation of any kind and attract
contributors helping to improve that documentation. Do we
have a charter? Maybe I misunderstood that.
Perhaps you could propose to the council that a new project be created.
This, of course, would mean many changes to Issue Tracker to accommodate
such an event.
No. What a strange idea to separate online help from the rest
of docs. Would you also make a new project for the FAQs?
Aurélien, if you have any ideas about the "more modern way of
presenting", maybe we can use that for a consistent presentation
of the doc.oo.o pages?
I have not read Aurelien's intro yet but think that any ideas presented
should be considered. However, who is going to implement them? Aurelien,
do you wish to take on the task?
Why not put planning before implementation and discuss what
the scope of such a project would be and agree on changes first?
Frank
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