Hi Ingrid!
Ingrid Halama wrote:
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?
hmmm...thanks for the encouraging words...I intned to do more work on
this this evening. After this weekend, I probably can not do much work
on it for the next week or so. see below...
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?
The only value I can see to keeping the project leads is it's a quick
way for someone to just send off an e-mail to him/her. Yes,
theoretically, they should be able to do this by going to the actual
project page, but then you're into extra clicking. The drawback to
having them here, of course, is that we need to keep on top of updates
to this. Ah, for a DB interface to some of our pages! :{
In addition is there any use to have the short name/description of the
projects here?
Probably not. I was wondering about this myself. I think removing the
short names probably would do no harm at all, except that this is how
things show up when use use the "project" servlet. But I'm neutral on
this suggestion.
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.
OK--I think this is a good idea and I'll see what I can come up with.
Unfortunately, I feel my knowledge might be a bit limited for some things.
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.
Probably, but I can't do that here. This is up to the OOo project leads.
Also, in contrast, I think some of them could be combined, like the Q&A
project with Documentation. To end users, these two things are really
tied to support.
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!
OK...
Great work!
Ingrid
Thanks again. There are some other similar comments from las week that I
need to review again as well.
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