Please fix your news UI to put the list address in the reply-to field. Most of us do not use the Sun mail2news gateway and therefore replies to Sun messages get complicated.
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:26 +0100, Uwe Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > it appears that a few people here (well, at least the co-lead of the doc > project) think that the OpenOffice.org help that is installed with the > program is not a part of the OpenOffice.org documentation project. Not quite. What was suggested is that if templates are out then, perhaps, on-line help is in the same category. > > I'm totally puzzled what makes people think this way. The so called > online help that is installed with the program consists of several > thousand files with several hundred thousand words of (we hope) helpful > information for the user. The online help is part of the OOo code and is > built the same time a new OOo program version is built. I was equally puzzled by Frank's suggestion. I took it as a joke and responded in kind. > > Everything in the online help creation and building process is as open > and documented as the remaining program code is. Yes, it is more > difficult to contribute to the online help directly than it is to just > send an email comment, but that is something we (Sun and community > members together) can fix. The authors of online help have always given > links to all the necessary information (see my signature) and constantly > help each and everyone who wants to be part of the documentation project. I think you have identified part of the problem. on-line help is part of the code thus contributors must have signed the JCA to directly contribute. Most find this and Issue Tracker barriers. > > I only hope that this proposed dumping of our efforts is a big > misunderstanding on my side. > Yes I think that putting one's tongue in one's cheek on a mailing list causes more confusion than is necessary. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PATH tech
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