Hi :) I think it would be more impressive if people mostly skipped the 3.5.x and went straight on to the 3.6.x as happened with the Impress Guide this time. Maybe by the time the 3.6.x guides are done the need for 3.5.x guides would be over anyway. There are not many releases left before 3.5.x reaches end-of-life.
Yes, there might have been big changes but if no-one is using the 3.5.x by the time the guides are done then there will have been no point in doing the guides. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 14/6/12, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.6 is approaching quickly! To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 14 June, 2012, 7:21 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 >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> -- 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 -- 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
