Documentation Team Meeting Minutes October 8th 2020 at 18:00 UTC. Presents: Travis Stewart, Dave Barton, Rafael Lima, Olivier, Soren Jonsson, Emiliano Vavassori
Telegram Channel https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ Live TDF Jitsi Room https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam Completed items: + Front and back covers for 7.0 release (OH) Pending items: + Change in workflow News: PLease come to LibreOffice Conference 2020 next week ! https://conference.libreoffice.org Topics and Discussion: + Suggestions for Database Functions (S Fanning) + Answered in the same document, need finishing touch (OH) + Objective: rewrite/improve Calc Database functions Help + Seasons of Doc update (OH) + Wiki on Calc Functions + E-learning (hosted by LibreItalia) + Covers for Guides + Overall result appreciated (all) + Nextcloud Folder in duplicate (Dave) + Archive folder /Cover7/ + Keep folder /cover7.0/ + Credits to Rizal Mutaqin and Drew Jensen in chapters + Covers are memory intense, slow to handle/render (RL) + hi-res using SVG (OH) + Can we use PNG? (RL) + up to Guide team discretion (OH) + please use a copy of source to play with (OH) + Math Guide (Rafael Lima) + Like the book, very complete + I write Academic tech papers with math equations, + Math is important + Adding new contents and examples for 7.0 + Other topics + NC performance ? + Sometimes slow, but not so often (DB) + Editing with LOOL is very slow (DB) + Issue with copy/move several files at once with web UI + learned to do it one by one. + No issue in download (RL) + LOOL is slow in FFox but better in Chrome (RL) + New Workflow + Not changed directory structure yet (DB) + About to finish Chap 3 of Contrib Guide + Later I'll mirror in wiki (DB) + Writing Style for help (Travis) + Are there recommendations for writing? (Travis) + Contributor Guide, Chap 4 + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DocumentationTeamInfo/StyleGuide#Writing_style + LibreLogo (Travis) + interested in the language (Travis) + Should we write a tutorial on LibreLogo (?) + Write a wiki page on Logo, link from Help pages for further reading + Too much contents in Help will oveload translators(OH) + stick to the essential in Help, extend in Wiki + Help pages from search engines (RL) + search for LibreOffice leads to old wiki help (RL) + Wiki Help was released in 2010, (OH) + Until LO 6.1, when Help changed technology/URLs + 8 years of organic indexing won't vanish quickly (OH) + SEO is an avenue for permanent routine work/improvement (OH) + can speed up indexing but requires energy(OH) + API documentation (Soren Jonsson) + sent mail to doc list, no answer, will resend + API doc is hard for end-users, occasional macro programmer (OH) + Was writen for developers, familiar to object-oriented languages (RL) + Tried to code calc cell border in python, took time (RL) + Many Help pages on python by LibreOfficiant, please check (OH) + Interested in topic too (Travis) + there is a working group on scripting devel and doc (OH) Meeting ajourned Next meeting : *THURSDAY* October 22th 2020 at 18:00 UTC. -- Olivier Hallot LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 LibreOffice – free and open source office suite: https://www.libreoffice.org Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data http://tdf.io/joinus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy