Noel,
After I sent that response I realized what you meant by "agenda."
You're saying that ASF people will think I want to use Open Office
because Sun told me to. That is most definitely not the case and I
find the idea a little insulting (despite the SPARC implants, I am
NOT a corporate tool!). My management had no problem at all with
keeping the docs on the wiki. I'm the one who instigated the Open
Office stuff.
And to back that up, I've been using Open Office since I started
working on Roller in 2001 three years before I started working for
Sun. In fact the original Roller article I wrote for O'Reilly was
written using Open Office (see http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/1613 and
check out the obvious O.O. diagrams). So, I'm not pushing an agenda
other than my own "want to use modern and easy-to-use tools" agenda.
- Dave
On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
I understand your points about non-technical people collaborating
on docs,
Dave, but I would expect some pushback. People are likely to feel
that
documentation for ASF projects should not be used to promote other
agendas.
Has anyone approached Forrest (http://forrest.apache.org) about
being able
to handle Open Document format, perhaps eating ODF and outputing other
formats, as it currently emits HTML and PDF from multiple source
formats?
Alternatively, have you seen Daisy? Cocoon is using that to
collaboratively
edit their documentation.
Daisy: http://cocoondev.org/daisy/
Document editing: http://cocoondev.org/daisy/index/53.html
Just talking points.
--- Noel
