Hi Kay,
Kay Schenk wrote:
same topic...many questions
Friends--
I am looking at our current setup with respect to contributing,
development and projects and am already lost!
so am I ...
Here's what I'm seeing...
* the Contributing page, linked from the home page via "join us" then
goes to "Programming", then to development. So you have
home page -> Contributing -> development.openoffice.org
[ on this note, I made a VERY slightly modified development page which
you can see as :
http://development.openoffice.org/indexNew.html
I did this because I liked Kay Ramme's architecture chart, and think
it's important. Also, I saw NO easy direct link to the wiki from anywhere!]
the architecture chart is far from perfect etc., IMHO the point
basically is, that navigating is far easier for people, when using a
map, which basically the chart could provide.
* then we have Projects
which in my mind do not mesh well with development in the sense that how
are the "projects" related to say, the OO modules, or anything else? I
see by digging deeper into the project areas, one might take a guess at
this but ???
Modules assemble to projects, which assemble to products
(OpenOffice.org, URE, etc.).
Questions
1. Is there some straightforward way of tieing these two areas together?
The main Developer page does not even mention projects per se? Should it?
Yes it should, but lets see ... :-)
2. I'm thinking it would be nice to add
something like Kay Ramme's graphic to the Projects home page so that
visitors could get an immediate gulls-eye view :) of what's going on
here and select a project accordingly. If it's not complete, can someone
modify it?
Please see above, by the way, I somewhat reworked the UDK page
(http://udk.openoffice.org) and would appreciate feedback.
3. Is the wiki pretty much going to replace development.openoffice.org
or augment it or ??? I don't know who is typically responsible for this
area (I see I can actually make changes to it, but I didn't...since I'm
not a developer), but...are there now too many places to find things?
Mmmmh, took me a while to understand the relationship between
http://openoffice.org and the Wiki. In my opinion, the point is, that we
actually do not want two sites, but one only. The origin of the Wiki
basically is the desire to use Wiki like editing capabilities for the
OOo site. So, we really should ensure that both sites become merged
again, after SourceCast (that is the http://openoffice.org managing
software) has Wiki like capabilities. In the mean time, the strategy for
the UDK project is, to put the UDK main page into SourceCast, but to
have everything else in the Wiki. Yep, I know, this is not optimal but
IMHO a viable compromise ...
Regards
Kay
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