TO: All Projects
All OOo Users
Please CC this information to any interested groups.
Dear users,
I have started a task to improve the workflow within the OOo-project.
A.) SOP
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In order to attain best results, it has become imperative to develop
standardised workflows and to define Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
to document these workflows.
B.) RATIONALE
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Many activities within the OOo project are poorly documented and
difficult to understand, especially for newcomers and outside-users.
In order to improve transparency and the efficiency within the OOo-project
and bring consistency in the various activities, SOPs will be implemented
for most common tasks.
C.) SOP-Categories
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Because of the relevance of documentation and specifications, especially
when wanting to change and improve something, I started writing some SOPs
detailing the creation of new wiki-pages and managing the wiki. If such
information already exists, it should be rewritten as SOPs and made more
visible.
First drafts can be read at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/SOP
As some projects may have already noticed/may know, I have already tried
to persuade people to reorganise the wiki and:
1.) group pages under appropriate Top-Level-pages and
2.) assign significant categories to the wiki-page
This task tries to formalise the procedure and drive all projects/users
to adopt this techniques. Especially newcomers (new users) will benefit
from these informations and will allow them writing better wiki-pages.
[Some projects largely abide to these requirements, others however have
still to follow.]
D.) DRAFT
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These SOPs are still in draft phase. I propose therefore a 2 week-schedule
to read/discuss/improve the SOPs. Thereafter, the SOPs should be adopted
by the OOo council (somebody else???) and promoted to accepted SOPs.
Any future activity shall abide these SOPs.
E.) Discussions
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Most discussions should be held probably on the wiki-discussion pages.
I am subscribed to a number of mailing lists, BUT not to all of them.
Mailing-list discussions should be posted probably to a single list
(e.g. User Experience; I am subscribed to this list;
http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=discuss).
This subject is probably of interest to the OOo-council, too. Therefore,
an alternative would be the OOo-council. In the latter case, please CC me
any relevant mails.
Sincerely,
Leonard
NB:
I already started to improve the wiki. In addition, I am trying to reduce
the number of double redirects. Currently it stands at 120, but this is
120 too much.
There are also a lot of orphaned pages. In a collective effort we can
definitely improve the wiki. Please help if you are the owner of such a
wiki-page.
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