John, I will set up an Alfresco account for you later today, so you can dive into finding out of date info/pix and other errors and omissions while we're revising the docs. As Tom notes, I've done most of the "flagging" of items, but that's only because other people haven't been doing (much of) that. And of course I miss a lot, particularly since for this last round I concentrated on a list of what's new or changed in the product, not on what the existing chapters contained. The more people looking at things, the better.
Tom, I disagree with your statement, "Then other people work through those changes without having to worry that they might be missing something because they just work through your list and tick things off as they go." The people making changes need to do more than follow a list; they need to pay attention and spot other things that the first person missed or that don't become apparent until one is researching and rewriting the material. --Jean On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 21:14, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > You make good comments and have an eye for a high level of detail so it would > be fantastic if you can expand on what you currently do. However that might > slow you down. Often it's fairly standard to have 1 person racing through > flagging-up the things that need doing and that is something Jean has done a > lot of in the past. Then other people work through those changes without > having to worry that they might be missing something because they just work > through your list and tick things off as they go. > > In effect you are creating the equivalent of the "Easy Hacks" that helps > people learn their way into the devs group. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > --- On Fri, 2/12/11, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: John Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Published chapters of Getting > Started and Writer Guide > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 2 December, 2011, 11:02 > > Hi Jean > I must admit I'm interested in giving some help to the project but have > felt I don't have the necessary skill-sets for it. > I'm retired after a working life repairing and calibrating electronic > measuring equipment. Technical manuals have been an integral part of > that, and 'though I have no writing skills, I do know what I dislike > when I pick a manual up that's not been done too well. > If it's thought I could help on the inside rather than making comments > post publication, then perhaps an Alfresco account is the way to go. No > problems either way. > Regards > John > > On 01/12/2011 19:55, Jean Weber wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 02:30, John Smith<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> Regarding Chapter 5 of the Writer guide for 3.4.x; the screenshots for >>> figures 8 and 9 do not reflect the current display in LO. The screenshots >>> appear to be a hang-over from OOo which didn't display the place-holders in >>> the preview box, for the stamp, addressee's and if selected, the sender's >>> addresses. >>> >>> I hope these observations are helpful. >>> >>> Regards >>> John Smith >>> >> John, your observations are very helpful. We (I) may not get around to >> fixing things quickly, but having them noted is very good. >> >> These are among the sort of things that I ask people to look for when >> reviewing the v3.3 versions for things that need to be changed for the >> v3.4 books, so if you (or anyone) have the time and interest to go >> through some of the chapters that have not yet been updated and point >> out the pix that need to be changed, that would be very helpful too. >> Finding them after publication is good; finding them before >> publication is even better. As you can tell, I often just don't see >> things like that; I've been looking at these chapters for too many >> years. >> >> --Jean >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
