Hi Kay, all,
Kay Schenk wrote:
Hello *,
I made some rather minor tweaks to my revision at
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/Kay/projects/
Your work is so much an improvement to what we have now :-), great!
Are there any objections to go online with that?
Maybe a mail to all project leads could assure acceptance?
Some things to mention. I think it's rather important NOT to get topics
all garbled up together. With this in mind, I DID NOT put Kay Ramme's
lovely graphic about how components integrate on this page.
And...although there is some merit in devling right in to development
type issues, this isn't really what this page is for, is it?
I would agree.
I also share Clyties opinion that the project leads don't need to be
listed here. The provided content about the projects should speak for
itself. If that is not sufficient the next step are the public forums (
mailing lists etc.). Ideally there should be only very rare cases to
contact the project leads via private mail, or?
In addition is there any use to have the short name/description of the
projects here? They give a hint about cvs access and the according
mailinglist names. But the former really is already a deep development
detail and the latter is not so obvious that the information about the
short name is sufficient to get the complete mailing list name. So when
there is no other use for it I would suggest to skip that column also.
This information than should be provided on each project page.
What in contrast I would like to add are the product names to all
projects that are directly related to the products - Calc, Writer,
Impress, Draw, Base, Chart, Math ... . I think this is important as
often website users do search for keywords instead of reading the whole
text. So this important keywords should be on the project page.
Also the heading 'Products' raises the expectation to find the product
names here.
Maybe we can introduce a column for that? Or at least offer the product
names all in the same style for each project? What is tricky and
confusing is that some projects do host more than one product. E.g. the
Word Processing project does host Writer and Math. The Graphic
Applications project does host Impress, Draw and Chart. Some
historically grown structure which continues to confuse users ... . In
the long run I think it would be better to split those overloaded projects.
As we have a dedicated page for the chart already ( see
http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html ) -
Kay could you make a link to this from the word 'Chart' in the
description of the Graphic Applications or similar please? Thanks a lot!
Great work!
Ingrid
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