Documentation Team Meeting Minutes March 18th 2021 at 18:00 UTC.
Presents: Dave Barton, Rafael Lima, Olivier Hallot
Telegram Channel
https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ
Live TDF Jitsi Room
https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam
Completed items:
Pending items:
News:
Topics and Discussion:
* Google Seasons of Doc
+ we need ideas, please give your ideas !!!!
+ It is important that we also deal with development doc (Rafael)
+ From proper experience, starting dev't is tough (Rafael)
+ Need doc on how to start
+ AOO has a dev guide (outdated) (Olivier)
+ Plan to migrate to LO and to update to 2021 times (Olivier)
AI: + Can be offered to TW, will see with Ilmari (Olivier)
+ Development doc requires tech skills
+ API doc?
+ more?
+ User doc is already well covered (Books, wiki, FAq...)
+ but not a closed topic
+ GSOD Tech Writer should not kill the fun of the community (Olivier)
+ Community like to work on Guides (All)
+ Base guide? (Rafael)
+ We have a Base Guide 6.4 (Olivier)
+ https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/
+ More E-Learning? ( what?) (OH)
+ Guides -> textbook + exercises? (OH)
+ Publication of Guides in HTML format
+ I'm fine with PDF online (Dave)
+ Idea to add more entry pts in LO documentation (Olivier)
+ Get better Search Engine results ? (Olivier)
+ Some experiences in place, but work in progress:
+ https://books.libreoffice.org/en/GS70/GS7000-Preface.html
+ https://books.libreoffice.org/pt-br/CG70/CG7000.html
+ more to come, stay tuned.
+ Requires review of Chapter files formatting (Olivier)
+ took me 40 min per chapter to fit for HTML export (Olivier)
+ Shortening the revision cycle for small updates
+ 2-round revision takes too much time
+ very little update in many Guides
+ But Writer guide has important changes (Dave)
+ Trust expert reviser/updater? (Olivier)
+ We should trust skilled authors. (All)
+ They likely not doing dumb things (Dave)
+ Proposal of Template for 7.1
AI: + Submit a new proposal for 7.1 template, discuss in ML.
+ Address issues found in current template
+ Address requirements for other export formats
+ work in 2 spaces (OH)
+ 1) Aesthetics (
+ 2) Internal changes invisible to curret ODF&PDF outputs
+ will help exporting to other formats (EPub, HTML5)
+ 3) Sanity check script to
+ Check acessibility requirements
+ Check unofficial (spurious, legacy) styles
+ Check compliance with template directives.
+ Clean direct formatting (e.g odtclean.py)
Meeting ajourned
Next meeting : *THURSDAY* April 1st 2021 at 18:00 UTC.