Hi guys,
Last year TDF invested some of our donors money in a number of great
features and infrastructure pieces that were long term technical
problems for LibreOffice - particularly in the area of QA and tooling to
reduce regressions, but also eg. for longer term consistent
cross-platform shaping with Harfbuzz.
It is budgeting time for the board again, and there is an opportunity
to come up with proposals for funding again for 2017, although the
time-line is somewhat short (due to the normal endemic dis-organization ;-)
I'd like to restrict suggestions to those which a developer has a
reasonable chance of fixing in some sort of linear time & cost: we have
a very finite budget - ie. this is not a request for users to ask for
their pet features to be implemented ;-)
Personally, I'm still highly interested in items that help grow the
community and make our life easier: for example more, and more reliable
tests that we can run in the CI (for example).
Do you an idea for a whole domain of tests that can be
created ?
Is there something we can create to make it easier to
write tests ?
Is there something we can do to make it easy to write and
debug macros, scripts etc. - particularly tests ?
Is there some QA tool that is badly missing - which we could
use to isolate bugs / regressions ?
Is there some tooling or UI that could be used to improve help
authoring in some specific way ?
Is there some debilitating performance problem that slows us
all down that could be improved with an investment of time ?
Is there something that badly needs doing, but is too hard,
dull, etc. to have got done yet, but which could be done with
some money applied ?
And lastly the controversial one:
Is there some larger feature, platform, component, area of work
that is bigger than a GSOC project but not huge enough to be too
expensive that is critically missing, that has a concrete
development plan to work on ?
Replies by E-mail here are fine; private replies are ok if you're
unsure whether the idea is sensible =) I'll try to curate and collect
ideas - IIRC we used a wiki page last time to collect them - which I
can't now find ;-) We'll discuss this in the ESC call tomorrow before
going through some similar ranking scheme as last year to recommend
things to the board.
Thanks !
Michael.
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michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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