Hi Martin, Andrew,
Martin Hollmichel wrote (31-3-2008 14:00)
I was the bad guy who removed all the links out of the document to non
.openoffice.org domains. We tried since year that in official
OpenOffice.org document there should be no links to non .openoffice.org
domain. So by seeing the massive amount of the oooninja.com links was to
remove them (without checking all the content behind those links). Right
now I'm unsure on how to deal with this because most content seems to be
very valueable for OpenOffice.org user. Thank you very much for all that
work !
Since I found out that I also not discovered all external links I'm
wondering what a good policy for those policies could be.
On the one hand I would something important as release notes also
available offline with as much useful information as possible. But this
is also difficult with that many links into OOo wiki.
On the other hand to cut off many useful links might be also problematic.
I see the dilemma. One thing to keep in mind, is that there's a risk
when placing external links on the site: business people might try to
use it to get more visitors, for advertising clicks or to find new
customers. This may open the road for a competition, and/or lead to the
need to set an arbitrary limit.
By looking at the current release notes I think they are much better
than in the release before, but they still contain too many links to
blogs, specification and issues and is too detailed at all.
Wrt your last remark: I think that a relative high number of people at
OpenOffice.org ís interested in details and specs, technical background.
So, after a clear and end-user-friendly description, links to this info
IMO is ... a must.
Maybe it
would be more useful to strip down these release notes into one document
and just add one external link to the NewFeature document for further
information.
Sounds OK at a first glance. I'm in for further improvement. The info
from Andrew is very good in this aspect.
Kindest regards,
Cor
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"The Year of 3" -2008- "Het jaar van 3"
Cor Nouws
Arnhem - Netherlands - nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact
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