Kohei Yoshida wrote: > On 11/6/06, Niklas Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kohei Yoshida wrote: >> > On 11/3/06, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Let's put it that way: it should be possible to integrate something even >> >> if the original goal laid out in the spec wasn't reached but the result >> >> is "good enough". "Good enough" means that we could live with it even if >> >> nothing was changed until the release date. This is something you always >> >> must take into account, especially in case of community development. >> > ... >> >> We never should accept unfinished UI work in a way that parts of the >> >> necessary functionality *willingly* don't work to a degree that users >> >> will expect in a professional application. This can't be described by a >> >> fixed percentage but I assume that it can be judged with common sense. >> >> If developer, QA and other participants agree that it's good enough, >> >> then let's take it. >> > >> > I like the way you put it. This is essentially what I was trying to >> > say in my post. Looks like we're on the same page here. >> >> But note how "the original goal laid out in the spec wasn't reached" >> implies that there was a spec to begin with. > > Ah, nice catch. :-) Obviously my eyes quickly skipped over that sentence. > > Jokes aside, I would change that sentence to "the original goal laid > out wasn't reached" (leave out the spec part). This doesn't mean that > we can't use the spec, but means that the sentence should cover cases > where the spec wasn't used (e.g. the intended behavior may have been > laid out in the issue, but not necessarily in the form of a > specification document).
Agreed. We shouldn't focus on specs as a formal document but on the content that allows us to describe the goal and the delivered implementation to all necessary stakeholders in simple, comprehensive and hopefully unambiguous terms. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
