RE: nowhere to point people

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

+1

There are too many old pages.  Meanwhile,

.

I concur that the top-level wiki pages and the documentation-related ones tied 
in there are in need of curation.  It is all right to keep older materials but 
they need to be differentiated somehow and maybe nested where their archival 
status is clear.

 - Dennis


> -Original Message-
> From: Jean Weber [mailto:jeanwe...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 22:40
> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: nowhere to point people
> 
> I just fielded a question about where to find AOO user guides that
> came to the ODFAuthors webmaster. I had to tell the person that there
> was nothing up to date and that I couldn't even find the material that
> the AOO Docs group is working on. I was distressed to note that any
> links from the AOO website (such as the Support page) point to the
> very old, out of date documentation from OOo days, with no indication
> of where to get more up to date info. I pointed the person to the AOO
> users list, the AOO forum, and the LO documentation.
> 
> OTOH, it was rather nice to see my book listed on the Books page.
> 
> --Jean
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FW: Food for Thought

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

This was posted on the dev@ openoffice.apache.org, a list some of you should be 
on even though documentation-related discussions are not that often.  The dev@ 
list is the list of record for certain matters.

The list post is something for our specialized lists to understand about how 
work gets done on the Apache OpenOffice project,

 - Dennis

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Food for thought: 

The Apache OpenOffice project, and other Apache projects, are more like 
do-ocracies than any other form of project governance.  The distinct karma for 
committers and also PMC members is fundamentally related to the Foundation 
requirements concerning IP provenance of project code bases and other 
artifacts, although that is often referred to as a meritocracy arrangement.  

For example, no one on the Apache OpenOffice project has executive authority, 
although there are particular accountabilities for committers, PMC members, and 
the PMC Chair (who is an officer of the Foundation).

For another example, there are no assignments to give out or ways other than 
suggestion and recommendation to direct effort.  This is probably what is most 
confusing to outsiders and also to the many advocates for AOO who would like to 
see particular expressed needs met.  

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