On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > Or write the new FAQ in mdtext and remove the old. >
That could work as well. Easier to maintain than HTML. It could even have a specialized nav for the various FAQ categories. Almost anything would be an improvement from what we have right now: two separate FAQ sites, neither one maintained. -Rob > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone on the road. > > On Dec 2, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. >>> >>> >>> I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an >>> "OpenOffice FAQ" easily reachable by search engines at >>> http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and quite outdated (I don't know whether >>> it's reachable from the home page, but it doesn't seem so). >>> >>> Time to make a new FAQ available or update the old one and link to it from >>> the current site? >>> >> >> The current location of the FAQ is prominent in search results. That >> is valuable and worth preserving. >> >> But the current FAQ contents are out of date. They would need a lot >> of work to update/correct them. >> >> Although the FAQ's are presented in a way that is OK for the user, the >> static HTML source is structured in a way that will be painful to >> maintain. Getting a cleaner structure, for example using HTML >> definition lists (<dl>) would be easier and could be maintained via >> the CMS web interface. >> >> There is another set of FAQ's on the documentation wiki: >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ >> >> These also appear to be unmaintained. But I think the wiki version >> would be easier to maintain. >> >> So one possible resolution could be: >> >> 1) Take anything of use from the FAQ's at >> http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and copy them into new FAQ items on >> the wiki >> >> 2) Update the other FAQ's on the wiki >> >> 3) Add new items to the wiki FAQ (like the iPAD question) >> >> 4) Delete the old FAQ directory and replace with a single page that >> directs the reader to the wiki FAQ's. >> >> >> -Rob >> -Rob >> >>> Regards, >>> Andrea.
