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.