Peter! Glad to hear you had a good holiday. I haven't been in Croatia in 45 (!) years, back when it was part of Yugoslavia. I enjoyed it then and have been looking for an opportunity to go back.
Here is the page for downloading the Beta 1 of LO3.6: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ That page also has a link to the nightly builds, if you feel really daring. Glad to know you'll be doing Draw 3.5 as well as 3.6. --Jean On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Peter Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jean > > Back from a wonderful holiday in Croatia. Definitely worth visiting again and > we are already making tentative plans for next year. Now it is back to work. > > If you can point me in the right direction to get a reasonably stable version > of LO3.6, I can continue with Draw guide LO3.5. Then check LO3.5 guide > against LO3.6 after completing each chapter. Make any necessary alterations > and we shall be a little ahead when it is a go for publishing LO3.6 guides. > > Regards > > Peter Schofield > [email protected] > > > On 14 Jun 2012, at 08:21, Jean Weber wrote: > >> I have now studied the features lists for v3.5 >> (http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/) and >> v3.6 (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6). >> >> Numerous important changes were made in v3.5 to Writer and Draw as >> well as Impress. Few new or updated features are listed for Draw and >> Impress v3.6. >> >> Updating the Draw Guide to 3.5 should not be a major job for PeterS, >> because of the overlap between Draw and Impress. He has already agreed >> to do it. Producing a v3.6 book for Draw or Impress should require >> very little further work. >> >> Updating the affected chapters of the Writer Guide to v3.5 will be a >> fair bit of work for whoever does it (JohnS?), but then the update to >> v3.6 should be relatively minor. >> >> Calc appears to have numerous important changes in v3.5 and in v3.6, >> so perhaps a case can be made for skipping a Calc Guide for v3.5 and >> going directly to v3.6... assuming anyone is available to work on it, >> given everything else that needs to be done. >> >> IMO, we should have a Getting Started guide for v3.5 and another for >> v3.6. But again, that assumes someone is available to work on it. I >> traditionally do that book, other than the chapters extracted from >> work others do for other books (Writer, Impress, Draw, Calc). >> >> So, to summarise: >> I think we should NOT skip the v3.5 books (other than, perhaps, Calc), >> because of the major changes in v3.5. However, if individual >> volunteers prefer to go directly to v3.6 for whatever they are working >> on, I won't argue. >> >> BTW, I intend to work on the remaining chapters of Calc v3.4 over the >> next few days, so we can finish that book as soon as Andrew Pitonyak >> does his chapters. >> >> After that, I intend to work on Getting Started v3.5. >> >> --Jean >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Don't know whether 3.6 is usable enough for us to start documenting >>> it, but it should be. It's in early beta at the moment. I haven't >>> tested it nor even read through the list of updates yet. >>> >>> Skipping 3.5.x guides: I'll look at the features lists for 3.5 and 3.6 >>> and form an opinion today or tomorrow. Skipping a release has both >>> advantages and disadvantages, so the pros and cons need to be weighed >>> up. Sometimes incremental updating works best; sometimes it's not >>> needed. (Others' informed opinions are welcome, of course.) >>> >>> --Jean >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi :) >>>> Is the 3.6.x usable enough to completely skip all the remaining 3.5.x >>>> guides and go straight to the 3.6.x guides instead? >>>> Regards from >>>> Tom :) >>>> >>>> --- On Wed, 13/6/12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.6 is approaching >>>> quickly! >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: Wednesday, 13 June, 2012, 23:32 >>>> >>>> This article is a nice summary: >>>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-3-6-0-enters-beta-testing-1616858.html >>>> >>>> It contains links to relevant LO wiki pages including: >>>> * the release plan, >>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/3.6#3.6.0_release >>>> * the preliminary Release Notes, >>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6 >>>> >>>> Note that release is scheduled for late July - early August. We need >>>> to finish the v3.4 Calc Guide and all the v3.5 books, as well as work >>>> on v3.6. >>>> >>>> --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
