Hi Jean; Continuing on the topic of my general ignorance ...
--- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > It's not clear to me that the user guides produced by > ODFAuthors are in fact "official documentation" even > though they are made available as ODT and PDF through > the OOo wiki. > We are talking about the same documents here? http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Those carry the "Oracle" logo or in older versions the "Sun" Logos. Assuming we host the documentation it would have to be done the "Apache Way" which would mean that the authors would be really inside the project. If this is so, I think it would be nice and we should consider it "official documentation". I recall someone (maybe you) had said that the ODFAuthors wanted to keep independent. If they want to join the podling they are welcome. There are some things which I think we should consider: 1) Many things are about to change, in particular when the new UI from Symphony is adopted, so we will have to do a lot of updating and new documentation anyways. Obviously all new documentation must be in a license acceptable to the Apache Foundation. 2) infra@ is not complaining, but the fact the person doing the MW migration will leave is an issue. We should be considerate with the limited resources: is there a technical reason for not using confluence for all new documentation? 3) The license issue is really important. under all circumstances documentation without an acceptable copyright must be contained. In particular, the confluence wiki must be kept clean. I think the logical plan would be to either find a new home for the MW documentation or migrate what we can into a new project. > > That would be only a few scattered chapters, because so > many people have worked on the docs over the years. And > it only takes one person to say no, I don't agree to > changing the license, and the chapter is > contaminated. > I am afraid we must still do this. Perhaps it's easier to find the people that oppose .. Can we legally make a call to everyone that opposes the change to speak up before a certain deadline? We would probably have to deprecate the documentation that we can't assimilate anyways (yes resistance is futile). Pedro.
