On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:49:02 -0700 Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > >> > >> In due course, when we've all had a little rest after the release of AOO > >> 3.4.1, it will be necessary to do some triage work on the Brainstorming, > >> so that the most requested changes make their way onto the planning table > >> for AOO 4.0. Many of the suggestions can be amalgamated, for example > >> improved doc/docx, xls/xlsx etc support; within reason these can all be > >> amalgamated into "improved support for MS Office formats, current and > >> legacy". Other suggestions are readily achievable by existing faciites in > >> OpenOffice; such requests might indicate need for better education of > >> Users or more accessible documentation/tutorials. > >> > >> Supposing that the Brainstorm is continued beyond AOO 4.0, should we prune > >> it in the light of whatever choices are made for AOO 4.0; should we also > >> register comments against some of the already readily achievable > >> functions, to give pointers to (say) the Forums and/or tutorials which > >> indicate how to do that function? > >> > >> Could we have some discussion on how best to analyse and progress the > >> current nearly 300 suggestions [as of date of posting) > >> > > > > We're getting a lot more feedback than I expected: 305 people have > > submitted 284 ideas and cast 3,106 votes. > > > > IMHO, this is wonderful. In some sense the voting process itself > > helps triage, especially if project members are also submitting ideas > > and voting, which I hope we all are. > > Not all of us have the time. > > > > I like your idea of combining closely related or duplicate ideas. > > Maybe in the end we could promote a "top 10" list of ideas, in a blog > > post, and collect also commentary from project members related to > > these top 10 ideas. > > I think that coming back to ooo-dev with "Top" ideas is appropriate. One of my concerns was that the multiple requests for similar features/support might cause these to drop off the radar as their voting would be too fragmented. Hence my suggestion that we consider amalgamation of closely related suggestions; the coding for one specific suggestion might easily expand to cover the coding necessary for a particular range. Hence the need for some form of triage to make best use of coding resources. > > > > > Another approach would be to take the top ideas and use them as > > additional input to a survey design that Kevin and Graham were looking > > into. We could take the top 10 (or 20) ideas and in the survey ask > > users to rate them. > > FYI - The ASF Board has created a new TLP called Apache Steve which will > expose the Voting mechanism used by the ASF membership. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > That help us get around the natural bias of Google Moderator, which is > > that ideas submitted first will get more votes because they've had > > more time to be voted on. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob > > > >> -- > >> Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
