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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.

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