Joe Smith wrote: > I've started to see these messages on the features announce list (via > Gmane). This seems like a good thing, but I have some questions: > > 1) Is there any mechanism for feedback on these features? > > None seem to have any issue number; are they supposed to be tracked > through the CWS name? If so, is there a feedback channel there?
I think they should have an issue number - in case there is a single issue for that feature. Besides that they can indeed by tracked through the CWS name in EIS. > 2) Do these features go through any UX process? Perhaps it is all internal. Every new feature is expected to go through a UX process, at least on an informal level. I don't know what "internal" should mean so let me describe what we are doing in Hamburg. For all features implemented by Sun developers the UX process is part of the iTeam work. If this team makes its work visible in the issue, a wiki page or a mailing list is completely up to the team. It may happen that the ongoing work indeed happens "internally" (means: in direct communication between the developer and the UX member of the iTeam) in some cases, especially if the feature is only a small one. In general using wiki pages for ongoing work or discussing new features on the UX discuss list have become quite popular in the last months. > Getting feedback from a wide an audience as possible seems like a good > way to go. It is so hard to change any UI design after the fact. As every work UX work needs a focus. IMHO posting new features to a "discuss" list at random will not produce useful results. Perhaps it will make things even worse when the discussions (as often) won't come to an end or end without a concrete result. I think a feature always should have a dedicated UX worker (and of course at least one developer ;-)). If all people involved in developing the feature think that they need more input they may use our UX project and its mailing list to collect more input. But that's just my personal opinion. > In the case of this specific feature: > Context menu entry to quickly insert picture background for slides > the spec (http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/sd.insertbackground.odt) > has a broken image of the proposed menu. I have no idea how and if a UX review happened for that particular feature. At least it would be a violation of our rules if it hadn't got one. But even a review may fail to prevent errors. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
