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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:27:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Space: Apache OpenOffice Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS)
Page: User Guides Revisted (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/User+Guides+Revisted)
Comment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/User+Guides+Revisted?focusedCommentId=30736429#comment-30736429

Comment added by Ricardo Berlasso:
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I agree with you: it will be really difficult to do this on time for 3.5... but it will be a good "selling point" for 4.0. 

A possibility is to build short documents that show differences between 3.4 and 3.5, a sort of "what's new" and use those document plus the existing ones as transition to the new documentation for 4.0. We can even use those documents to "promote" the 4.0 effort (something like "we are thinking on the future").

And after all, we are not on a hurry: on my experience providing user support, people tend to use documentation as the last resource to solve a problem. 

In reply to a comment by Keith N. McKenna:
I think I understand what you are saying Ricardo and I do not necessarily disagree. My concern with starting over and why I believe t is more an option or AOO 4.0 and beyond is the amount of work and the current lack of resources to accomplish anything for the 3.5 release.

It definitely a lot of work. The question that I have is can we get the resources that we need to do that large a re-write.

Also there is nothing that says this cannot be a phased process, indeed that is how I envision it. The first phase being getting something ready or the 3.5 release and also planning what the next iteration should look like.

I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on this.

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