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Purpose
The purpose of this page is to generate discussion about the User Guide(s) to be developed for Apache OpenOffice or indeed if any should be done at all. Since there has been little or no effort on this aspect of the project Since 2011 or early 2012 I will propose 3 scenarios to start the discussion.
Scenario 1: No Updated Users Guides
We muddle along as we have been. If user ask about documentation we direct them to the out of date v3.3 guides in PDF or ODT format on the OpenOffice.org documentation site http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/7/7e/Installation_Guide_OOo3.pdf, http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/6/63/Installation_Guide_OOo3.odt,or the even more outdated v3.2 version on the mwiki http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides#OpenOffice.org_3.2.
Pro's
- none that I can see.
Con's
- Unprofessional
- Increased possibility of incorrect or out of date information
- Increased frustration of the user base
Scenario 2: Use ODAuthors web site to update previous versions of the Getting Started guide.
There are draft chapters for the Getting Started Guide currently at the ODFAuthors website waiting to be reviewed and polished. The major stumbling block to this has been the licensing of the documents. They are currently dual licensed as GPL ver3 and CC-BY ver3. This would require either that we ask legal@ to review the CC-BY version 3 license as to whether it is compatible with the ALV2 (the 2.5 version is already approved) or that we host the distribution of the documents somewhere other than an Apache server.
Pro's
- Much work already done
- Possibility to have basic documentation ready for AOO version 3.5 release or shortly thereafter
Con's