Greetings,
Some time ago, it was suggested I offer to help out with the LibreOffice documentation. I have looked at the documentation guides and I think I have an understanding of how to proceed. My focus is with the Base documentation, since I believe that is the most immature and in most need of support. My Base experience is with the external database server, MySQL on Linux. I have two mainly inventory databases containing over 11 main tables and 33 subtables. Several of the main tables have over 1000 records and increasing. I have also created over 20 forms for data entry and maintenance. I stopped using Oracle Report Builder (ORB) for my reports because it just doesn't work for me. I am now using a 3rd-party report builder called DataVision until ORB gets fixed. I am currently creating queries for my forms in order to add some calculated fields to the forms.
Obviously, I have already signed up for this forum and have been monitoring the messages for a few weeks to try to get a feel for the processes. I am now actively offering to help. I downloaded the draft copies of chapter 2 and 3 of the Base guide yesterday and after reading the first 10 pages of chapter 3 with red pencil in hand, I made several corrections to it. I now believe my help may be needed as far as the Base documentation is concerned.
If the team wants me to help, I believe the next step is to get an ODFAuthors account so I can access the original documents and get to work proofreading/correcting them. I also will need to know which files the Base team needs me to look at.
I should add that I am using LO version 3.6.4.3, not the latest 4.x. I have a computer policy of never installing any software which has a version ending in zero. Therefore, I cannot help much with the 4.x documentation until 4.1+ or at least 4.0.6 is released. That said, I can help with the older 3.6 documents until then.
Looking forward to helping out.
Girvin Herr
