Perhaps a better criterion is to update a guide (or a chapter) if/when some major changes to the UI occur, particularly new features -- or any change that might make the existing guide confusing by describing something that is very different. Sometimes a few additional notes or sections would suffice (perhaps labelled "New in x.x").
I certainly agree there is much else we could be doing, and finding the time -- or the extra people -- to do them is something to aim for. --Jean On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:54, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > I think 1 set of guides each year is enough but according to the "Release > Plan" there is scheduled to be 2 branches per year! So, i think it might be > good for the team to make a decision to set a policy to skip either all the > odd ones or all the evens. > > There are other things the documentation team would be better doing. That > is, better than the people currently doing them (or not doing them)! Plus > there is a wish-list of things doc-team members have said they would like to > see. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Wed, 15/2/12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LO 3.5 release announced > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 15 February, 2012, 0:44 > > Thanks, Tom. I was thinking much the same thing, which I summarise here: > > * Finish GS 3.4 and Writer 3.4, both of which are well advanced, and > once I get a chance to go through John's work and upload some I've > been doing, will be nearly done; then start on v3.5 for both of them. > > * Skip Calc 3.4, Draw 3.4 and Math 3.4 and go directly to v 3.5, > because AFAIK little has been done on those books for v3.4. > > * Finish Impress 3.4 OR skip and go to v 3.5, whatever Peter prefers > (since he's doing the work). I haven't checked yet to see if there are > major differences in Impress from 3.4 to 3.5. > > * Continue with Base Guide for whatever version Dan prefers (since > he's doing the work). > > --Jean > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 00:54, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi :) >> I think that for most of the guides we should skip the 3.4.x branch >> completely and just work on 3.5.x. Exceptions (imo) should be GS, Writer, >> Base and possibly Calc. >> >> I think the GS guide is important for each branch as it covers the most >> 'obvious' stuff that people need to know. Similarly for Writer. Writer is >> the main app that most people use most of the time so it's important to get >> that guide out for each branch too. With Base i don't think it would even >> matter if different chapters were for different branches! The important >> thing is just to get a first version out there and then worry about >> consistency afterwards. I'm not sure about Calc. It's probably the 2nd >> most used app but still quite a long way behind Writer. The Users List >> almost never hears from people using Impress. So either the Impress Guide >> is stunningly good and significantly better than the other guides or it's >> the one that people do read before jumping in or Impress is very intuitive >> for people or not many people are using it, or some combination of those. >> >> So, i think complete GS and Writer for 3.4.x branch, keep going with Base >> and skip the rest? What do other people think? Are any of the other guides >> (or even 'just' odd chapters) near completion? >> >> Also don't forget that while 3.3.x and 3.4.x started at almost the same time >> and ran alongside each other the 3.5.x and future branches wont run in the >> same way. There will be some overlap with one branch ending just after >> another has started but not such a huge overlap as the first 2 branches. >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> --- On Tue, 14/2/12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] LO 3.5 release announced >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, 14 February, 2012, 11:36 >> >> The release of LO 3.5 has just been announced. We are falling further >> behind, team! >> >> I've had only a brief look at v3.5, but I could see a few conspicuous >> changes that will need to be written up in the user guides. >> >> When I have a chance, I'll create a page listing the changes that I >> find will need to be made to the guides, similar to the page I did for >> LO 3.4. Or someone else is welcome to do it. Release notes (useful for >> our purposes) are here: >> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5 >> >> And an interesting infographic of the highlights is here: >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116590/lo35-infofinal.pdf >> >> --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
