On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I think Rob's suggestions for "boldly going where OOo Docs have not >>>> gone before" are good ones, but they won't happen immediately. In the >>>> short term (for the next release of the software), we are most likely >>>> to have a choice between updated CC-BY-licensed user guides, or no >>>> user guides at all. >>>> >>> >>> Take a look at the Subversion home page and the link they have on the >>> left. We could do something like that if we wanted. That is a good >>> short-term approach. It could even work longer term, though I think >>> it is a growth-limiting choice. >> >> >> I think that is the most workable solution for the short term. We >> discussed it here some time ago and I at least looked at the >> Subversion home page and link and thought it was a good way to go. >> >> However, I am not sure where we should put the documents so they could >> be linked from the AOOo website. ODFAuthors is a production site, not >> really suitable in its present state for delivery of documents IMO. I >> suppose we could redesign this page >> http://www.odfauthors.org/openoffice.org and add whatever other pages >> might be needed. >> > > What is the concern with hosting the doc at ODFAuthors? Is the > load/bandwidth a concern? If so, one alternative would be to upload > the doc to Apache-Extra.org. Projects there are hosted by Google > Code, and also agree to these guidelines: > > http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/guidelines.html > > This is a good option for things that are not part of the project, but > somehow related to the project. > > -Rob >
My main concern is that I don't think the design of the website is really suitable for consumers of the docs. It's set up to be a production site. Past experience suggests that trying to get it to serve both purposes will mean it serves neither well. Apache-Extra.org sounds good; I'll read the guidelines to see if I can spot anything of concern to me (not that I expect to). --Jean
