Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 38857
Documentation needs its own CD
Last modified: 2009-06-14 09:13:43 UTC
I would like to recommend that the cdrom project add a documenation cd to the repetoir. Seems there are places in the world where downloading the docs is a problem.
Excellent Idea. I need to be able to get the actual documentation, however. Depending on the size it might be possible to squeeze some of it onto the current ISO. I would appreciate it if you could organize the following: An archive of the complete set of available documentation and an archive of the most essential documentation, preferably 2.0 specific, and in BZ2 or 7Zip's LZMA format. I'd like to have this done for the 2.0 release if possible.
Of course 2.0 stuff would be best but as there is no 2.0 release documentation will have to lag. There are efforts to make this happen nonetheless. However, existing docs should be useful and so I will definitely put together a compendium of existing stuff that should be useful regardless of the release.
I have made an iso of what I think is important stuff to have on a documentation CD. I have attached a zipfile that lists everything.
Created attachment 25624 [details] List of files that should go on a documentation cd
Thank you very much! that is just the sort of thing I've been looking for! I've always intended to include as much documentation as I can get my hands on in the CD ISO, although I suspect that it will require a second ISO for 2.0. I'll start collecting teh files and assembling them over the next few weeks. Feel free to contact me directly (use my OO.o address, that way it will get sorted into the correct folder at this end)with any addidtinal recommendations.
I thought so too. Tell me where to upload the iso. Then is becomess a simple exercise to freshen the files.
settantta-->GRS I've emailed you details of my FTP server and a login for you. Hope you got it.
Got the off-line messages and have replied. I have selected another option that should be good for both of us. It appears that moving the iso from my box to anywhereelse could take upto 24 hours. (DSL)
After attempting to use documentation.openoffice.org for the repository and having it fail with a broken pipe. I trying to use the method Alex provided off-line. If this does not work I will cut a CD and snail it.
The following is what Alex sent me after downloading the ISO I created: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:32, Alex wrote: > Did you get it? Yup :) I've burned it to a CD-RW to have a look at what you have. Interestingly, quite a bit of it is already on the current ISO. What I'm thinking of doing is to put some of the documentation (in PDF format) on the Install CD, as space permits. There will need to be a second CD for 2.0, since that will be using MSI/RPM and whatever Solaris uses for native installers. That means that I won't be able to use Sun's Redundancy Eliminator (called "red") to reduce the size of the image. And since the Linux package is considerably larger than the old style, as I suspect the Solaris and Windows ones will be too, there will be less space available for the extras. So I envisage this: CD 1 - Installers for all platforms, plus various PDF and/or HTML introductory guides (those formats chosen for the benefit of those who might want to read some of the guides before they proceed with the actual installation - SXW/ODT would be useless then, since they'd have no way of opening them until they installed OO.o). CD 2 - Everything in final form that is available from OOAuthors, OOExtras etc. Templates, Clip art, Howtos... They would be divided up a little though. All the PDF/HTML stuff would be in first level sub-directories, but the SX* and OD* stuff would be in third-level sub-directories under a folder named "Sources". DVD - DVD drives and burners are becoming more common, so a DVD image is also an option. I will probably produce one containing everything we have, organized in a similar way. Rather than having folders labelled CD1 and CD2 (as some seem to do), it would be "Installers" and "Extras", with Extras having three sub-directories "Documentation", "Artwork" and "Templates". Anyhow, that's the way I'm thinking, comments always appreciated, and I'll probably post the same text to the CD-ROM list in the next day or so, also for comment.
As to similarity to anything existing, this is possible. Please note that I opened this issue in December last year and much has changed since then. So ... What I proposed was what existed for me at the time. Where OOoAuthors guides exist on http://documentation.openoffice.org/ it means they are in published form and likewise for the other guides and manuals. I would like to see some of the Native language docs included too. Expecially those from the German NL and French NL. Others as space permits. Comments?
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