On 24 October 2012 20:56, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > We have the following today: > > 1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This > lists a variety of people involved in the project, independent of > status. > > 2) I'd like to have a place for new volunteers to put their names, > preferably on the wiki or some place where a non-committer has easy > access. > +1, very good idea...but may I suggest that we formalize the skill set description a bit (sort of check boxes), and add a field "interest in AOO", (e.g. l10n) making it easier for others to see where help can come from.
> > 3) We have a list of Committers here, automatically generated: > http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo > > I would be nice to know the same about committers, and especially which areas the "commit", I know in theory all, but I assume in praxise the areas they know well. > 4) We don't have anything that indicates which Committers are also PMC > members. > Is that an important difference in daily life ? > > 5) We have this "credits" page, which is linked to from our Help/About > dialog box. But it does not appear to be updated for AOO 3.4.0 or > 3.4.1: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html > > 6) Wiki "User" pages > > 7) Any others? > > As we all know, with multiple lists like this things will get out of > synch. In fact they already have. > > One simplification idea might be: > > 1) Convert the people.html page into a wiki page > +1 and merge with contributors ?? > > 2) Have that page indicate who is a Committer or PMC member. That can > be manual for now. > > 3) Point our Help/About box to the wiki page, and add sentence at the > end of the wiki that says, "OpenOffice has a long history and we also > thank those who contributed to it before our move to Apache" and then > link to credits.html > > > Any objections to this general idea? Any improvements? > > And if we did want a place to have a big table of volunteers, where on > the wiki should we put it (CWiki or MWiki)? > MWiki...that is OUR wiki, CWiki is for whole apache or ? > > -Rob >
