Hi guys, I've been doing some cleanup on the wiki in preparation for the Bugzilla Migration, and I've run across a number of wiki pages that explicitly refer to individuals as part of the steps to perform a task.
For example, this wiki page includes a custom file-a-bug link to Bugzilla that includes assigning the bug to a particular person: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Localization_Guide/How_To_Submit_New_Locale_Data As we all know, the particular people in a project may change over time. People move jobs, people's interests change, and sometimes we even lose contributors. I think that instead of embedding individual names and email addresses into our wiki pages and processes, we should try to refer to roles and teams. I know that we have to be careful here lest we use terms like "leader," but abstract references serve at least two big benefits: 1) When someone changes roles, the references still point to the right (new) person 2) Titles are easier to remember than names For example, in this case of submitting locale data files, the assigned-to email could be something like "localization-wrang...@libreoffice.org." If people want to alert QA to something, we could use emails like "qa@" and "bsa@" for the appropriate set of people. Obviously, some pages serve as a reference point for names -- like the Developers page, the QA/Team page, or even the ownCloud page that lists the current Admins. But those names aren't listed in processes. Those wiki pages are used as a reference point so that elsewhere one can say "ask the [[QA/Team]] for help" or "[[FindTheExpert]] for the correct area and ask for help". Essentially, I think we should abstract-out names and emails, and refer to individual/team roles. Thoughts? If people think this might be a good idea, I'll bring up the idea with some other teams. Cheers, --R _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/