Re: the work on the new documentation

There's one more thing I forgot to mention for anyone who'd like to pick
up the work. The following links are important:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-doc-xslt/0.8/
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-handbook/stable/

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 09:20 +0200, Alexander van Loon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Some of you might remember that I started working on the new
> documentation months ago. The documentation is not complete, but a lot
> of work has been done. It's probably more complete now than the current
> old documentation.
>
> The new documentation can be found here –
> http://www.abisource.com/viewvc/abiword-docs/trunk/Manual-NG/en/ – and
> you can open it with the command "yelp <full path to abiword.xml>". It's
> only readable by Yelp for now, but it shouldn't be difficult to convert
> it to HTML or PDF probably for those users who don't use Abiword on
> Unix.
>
> There is a problem though. I'm getting tired of doing this work, I don't
> want and/or can't spend any more time on it, except for yesterday I
> haven't committed anything to SVN for months. A demotivator is that for
> serious work when it comes to word processing I use OpenOffice and not
> Abiword, so I'm not really passionate about Abiword. The major
> demotivator is that I'm practically the only one who has been able to
> contribute large amounts of work to the documentation, I have been
> assisted by Marc Maurer from the beginning and later John Richards, but
> they have had very little time to work on the documentation so far.
>
> So I'm going to quit, but I hope something can be done to make the new
> documentation a success, it would be a shame if the current work would
> go to waste. Maybe the next release could include the new documentation,
> even if it isn't complete? If that release would also be accompanied by
> a call for improving the documentation (make it obvious, maybe put some
> text on the download page?), new contributors might be attracted who
> could continue the work on the documentation.
>
> Finally, because I'm going to quit I request that my SVN account will be
> removed.
>
> Greetings,
> Alexander van Loon
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 8 09:33:05 2008