Marcia,
I am very sorry you have had a bad experience trying to contribute to the
docs team. I have just gotten involved myself and my views certainly do not
represent any official or team perspective. The docs group has made very
little progress for a long time due to many obstacles but I think there is
finally a bit of movement with the repair of the MediaWiki extension, the
new repository and the decision to make odt the base format, insulating
most volunteers from technical issues that caused a lot of uncertainty. You
were certainly a very positive contributor and I was very much looking
forward to working with you on the larger documents. Please do continue on.
I also strongly support your concerns being openly addressed and rectified
where that is possible.
I want to review the previous emails before saying more, particularly
because it is getting late for me. I hope that tomorrow I can discuss with
you and other interested parties how to improve the docs team.
Francis
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:17 PM marcia wilbur wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I realize I did prematurely create a simple installation guide for GNU
> Linux users without realizing the licensure.
> This could be fixed.
> However, I received an email off this list from Keith stating the guide
> was not peer reviewed.
>
> I wonder, were these guides?
> http://openoffice-uni.org/
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> this was also posted online.
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> One recommendation - please make the onboarding simple and straightforward
> for those volunteering in this effort for documentation.
>
> I was just trying to be a positive force and influence for this project,
> but really and am disappointed by the docs team - well, particularly and
> the continued push to use the old docs, mix method of documentation and as
> I heard during fosdem = the idea... this project cannot move forward as a
> current offering - like a corporation
>
> I do encourage the docs team to move forward with current useful
> documentation for the project, working with developers in an effort to
> drive innovation.
>
> I hope you can move forward with these attitudes in a positive manner.
>
> Keith, all future communication should be made here.
>
> Thank you.
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