Ease maintenance of build-in help

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Tue Aug 11 22:50:53 PDT 2015


Hi Thorsten,

Thorsten Behrens píše v Út 04. 08. 2015 v 17:06 +0200:

> > First, is there consensus, that the current build-in help will be retained?
> > 
> I think - the plan to go all-in for wiki-based help is on hold, until
> someone (Kendy?) has cycles to push it further.

Added some details in the other mail :-)

> > A
> > Authors of help texts are allowed to start in ODF to discuss and finalize
> > the content and appearance of the intended help texts. There should be a
> > place in the repository to store such files. This way authors did not need
> > deep knowledge of the technical structure of helpcontent2. The person who
> > integrates the help texts into the build-in help need not be the content
> > author.
> > 
> Makes sense. For storing those WIP versions in the repo, I'm not sure
> that gives us much. Perhaps collaboration via owncloud or wiki works
> better there?

I'm not much a friend of having stuff on many places, so I'd prefer just
a .fodt next to the appropriate .xhp, and be done with that.  But of
course - what fits the documentation authors best...

All the best,
Kendy



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