Hi John,
John McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, November 27, 2006 13:55, Ingrid Halama wrote:
[snip]
No, I won't agree. Even from the pure users view, it is completely
unacceptable that there is no link for charts.
Let's look at the meesage about charts from an end user's perspective on
http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html
Thanks for the cooperation.
"As the current chart implementation has become unmaintainable over the
years, ..."
User: so your office software contains unmaintable code? excuse me while I
stay with MS-Office...
No, why should I excuse that? We are telling the truth and we do address
the problem. For explaining things sometimes it is necessary to tell the
truth.
" ...the chart team has decided to reimplement the chart module from
scratch to create a useable base for further development and integration
of missing features. The new CVS module is called chart2 and is a
submodule of the graphics project. The reimplementation is currently
ongoing within the child workspace 'chart2mst3'. You are welcome to
download a snapshot of the
ongoing chart reimplementation..."
User: CVS? child workspace?? what language is this????
Ok, thanks for the marketing expert evaluation. I will skip the both
sentences targeted at developers and move it to the development section.
"...These builds are unstable and full of known bugs, so don't use them
for important work. Also some functionality of the old chart is still not
available."
User: so it isn't as good as what I have now, which you have just told me
is a bit dangerous anyway, and this new stuff doesn't work properly
anyway?
I think you know as good as me that it is important to have some kind of
disclaimer when you offer a preview download of an upcoming version. It
would be very bad style to not do that and let the user unwarned run
into potential severe problems.
You see the problem? let us appeal for people to help in testing, if that
is what you need, but people who can use CVS and can fill in good
Bugzillas are *not* ordinary users.
But you can guide ordinary users to become testers and bug reporter. And
some of them might have the necessary development skills also.
Maybe you see the problem with having no information about charts at
all? Then a user might come to the conclusion that there are no charts
in OpenOffice.org and will not use it when he needs charts.
So please, when you are the expert for marketing text then provide me
with that and I make it more prominent on the chart page.
Thanks for the cooperation,
Ingrid
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