[scribus-dev] online docs

[Louis Desjardins]

Sorry for top-posting. I just can’t find where to insert my little
contribution here...

How I see the doc issue is as follow :

1. We have the application and we should have a basic online doc that would
describe how the various functionnality actually work. We coudl of course
discuss what should go in there and how we could organise the translation
and update processes so this work would actually reflect the evolution of
the application. The online doc would be a minimum but would be helpful to
coders and users as well to keep everything up-to-date.

2. We have an official manual. The word "official" means this book’s content
is agreed upon by the team. The book has lots more information than the
online doc. The explanations put things in perspective. Not only do you have
an explanation of a funtionnality but case scenarios alongside and
contextual information, plus a lot of professional information. A real mise
en scène of the application. This work is not distributed with the
application, the licence is different, the work is of a different kind and
essence than the online doc.

Out of the onine doc, one would have to work hard to create a competitor to
the "official" manual. And out of the "official" manual, one would find no
interest at creating the already existing online docs...

We can clarify the content and tone and approach to the online docs. This
would also include the licence under which we would release it, of course.
We should think ahead about translation issues, and updating issues.

But definitely, we need an online doc that reflects what Scribus is, at each
step of its life. This online doc should be translatable whithout too many
formalities. The teaser for the users would be "You like the online help,
you’ll love the book!".

Just my 2-cents.

Louis

2009/9/8 Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>

> Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 23:52:24 schrieb OM:
> > * Christoph Sch�fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> [2009-09-08 12:11:42
> +0200]:
> > > Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 11:47:06 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, a.l.e wrote:
> > > > > afaik, due to the license choosen, it's not possible to include the
> > > > > scribus official doc in debian and in other radical free
> > > > > distributions... i would be happy if somebody can prove me wrong on
> > > > > this.
> > > >
> > > > Was the matter actually raised by Debian team?
> > >
> > > Yes, because the documentation is under the FDL, which is considered
> > > non-free by Debian.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Christoph
> >
> > Christoph,
> >
> > Scribus documentation is actually under OPL v1.0, which is, non-free as
> the
> > debian-legal discussion of it that I initiated a long time ago showed.
> FDL
> > is actually a DFSG-free license and would be acceptable for Debian/main.
> >
> > "http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=doccopyright
> >
> > ....This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and
> > conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the
> > latest version is presently available at
> > http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/)<http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/%29>
> .)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alex
>
> One day I'll learn to use the correct abbreviations ... ;)
>
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