> On 7 Jan 2015, at 11:32 pm, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > +0 > > I'm not happy with this. I feel completely frustrated with any ability to > contribute considering that we have no way to know the rules for working on > the site, the wiki is terrible, and there is no compartmentalization that > works for where work is needed and what is actually stable about stable. > > Also, I think Peter assumes too much about my knowledge of the code and how > it works. I have no working knowledge of the internals of AOO nor of > DocFormats.
I’m very much aware this is a big problem at the moment. My #1 priority regarding my involvement in the project is to make it easier for others to get involved in actual development work - that includes documentation and assistance with tasks, e.g. the ODF filter which I’ve just posted about on the mailing list. Unfortunately my time is limited due to other work, but I see this as an important issue that I need to be addressing to the extent that I can. There’s a *ton* of fascinating problems to solve here, both development and research :) I’d like us to get to the good stuff sooner rather than later. I’ll be posting more on the list when I get time about some of the design issues I’m aware of that I think we should discuss. An example is how we can remove the need for explicit id mapping between concrete and abstract documents by using a suitable diff algorithm to compute the set of changes. It’s stuff like that which is the real meat of this project, though unfortunately there is a rather steep learning curve. I hope we can try and flatten that curve a bit. — Dr Peter M. Kelly [email protected] PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
