On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:23:04 +0800 David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> wrote:
> > @Sophie: don't you have any regard at all for the community bylaws' > stated principles? It makes one wonder, because you're actually one of > the MC members... And I'm not sure that all SC members would > necessarily disagree with what I explained in my previous post... > > David Nelson > @David, I must wonder what your intentions are with this community. On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:54:27 +0800 David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> wrote: > Hi, :-) > > The documentation team currently has no lead, and, IMHO, we are unable > to function effectively like this. To make some *effective* progress > with producing the large amount of documentation that is currently > lacking, someone needs to become acting documentation team lead until > such time that TDF makes an official appointment. > > I have 25 years of professional experience working with technical > documentation. I have only been involved in LibreOffice since the TDF > launch, but I have been doing some writing, proofreading and reviewing > for the project over the past couple of months. I am concerned and > care about the current state of inactivity and disarray in > documentation work. > > I offer to taken on the leadership and coordination of the team until > that time. Florian Effenberger has agreed to grant me wiki > administrator rights, so I will be able to do things such as > reorganize the documentation pages, move pages, protect pages, delete > pages, undelete pages and various other actions necessary for > establishing a workflow for the docs team. > > I plan to organize regular team phone conferences, and to listen > carefully to the ideas and opinions that team members voice. But then, > after that, when a decision needs to be taken in order to allow > tangible progress with the team's work, I plan to announce a decision > and to proceed with whatever action is necessary to make it happen. > > Obviously, I can't do all the work by myself, and I am hoping that > team members will feel that it's worthwhile to cooperate and > contribute, and that a significant number of you will also take part > in the work with me. > > If anyone feels that they are better qualified to take on this role, > and is willing to put significant time and work into the project to > make things really start happening, then please do speak up, and we > can let meritocracy and natural democracy decide the issue. If there > are other candidates, we can organize a vote by team members. (Let's > define a team member as someone who speaks up in this thread, and who > is willing to actually work on documentation, not just lurk silently > or unproductively flame and distract the debate.) > > I have already approached some SC members. They told me that the > organization is not yet there to make any official appointment, but > that there is no reason why I can't take on the role on an acting > basis, if I can convince team members to work with me. So I have > *some* kind of tacit approval to try and make this work. Let's say > that my understanding is that they will stand back and watch what > develops. And then at a later date they will make their official > decisions as they see fit. But this is certainly *not* an > officially-approved initiative. > > I want to provoke a response from as many of you as possible. :-) > > If you support my "coup d'etat", respond with +1. > > If you feel you're a better candidate, then please speak up and tell > us *why* and what your concretely propositions are. In that case, I > hope you're willing to back that up by contributing lots of active > work and time to the project. Because I promise that *I* am. > > If you actively disapprove of my initiative, then respond with -1. > > If you lurk and say nothing, I will consider that I have your tacit > approval. > > Please can *all* concerned documentation workers please speak up? > (Idle flamers and trolls, please refrain from adding unproductive > noise to this discussion.) > > David Nelson > After you wrote this you were voted in and then apparently abandoned post to work on the website. Ron Faile Jr., Jean Hollis Weber and others completed some workflow for the wiki. You then pushed for Alfresco, but didn't seem to do much in the way of making it usable for the team. I used Jean Hollis Weber's workflow and Ron Faile Jr.'s interpretation of that workflow to create a usable tool for the team. After the site was usable, replete with reports, you began getting involved and promptly erased every scrap of work the team had contributed since LibreOffice began. What's more, you told us so and then went silent. I salvaged some work, Hal reimplemented some space structure and there was not an offer of help from you, nor response when questioned directly. When Jean Hollis Weber noticed a vacuum and the necessity for our team to have a lead, she humbly offered her service. This is when you have chosen to re-emerge with what seems vitriol toward contributing members of the docs team. I must wonder what your intentions are with this community. Personally, I'd like to see one-big-happy. Currently, we are not one, we are not big, and we are not happy. -- jdc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
