Hello there, 2011/5/16 Sophie Gautier <gautier.sop...@gmail.com>
> On 16/05/2011 15:54, Gianluca Turconi wrote: > >> Sophie Gautier wrote: >> >>> Yes. I'm more for a wiki than a bugzilla, unless you know one that has a >>> very nice interface and is not frightening for non technical >>> contributors. >>> >> >> Sincerely, I hate bugzilla. :) >> > > it's a good tool, but only a tool dedicated to a specific usage, we > shouldn't try to use it for something else than tracking bugs life and death > ;) > > > >> For non technical people it's a real barrier for contribution, IMO. >> > > yes > > >> However, summing up this initial brainstorming discussion: >> >> 1) a central employment-office-like web structure for TDF/LibO >> volunteers *may* improve efficiency in recruiting new contributors when >> maintainers and current contributors ask for help; >> >> 2) such web structure should be as easier as possible (likely a wiki) >> and as visible as possible (a user must be able to choose how and what >> to contribute in just few clicks), with a main division between >> technical (code) and non-technical (everything else) requests for help. >> Subsections may exist according to the requested skills to complete a >> particular task and/or the estimated time to complete a task so that a >> wannabe contributor can choose the most suitable task to which contribute. >> >> 3) in order not to overload the current maintainers that ask for help in >> the centralized system, we can: >> 3a) appoint some volunteers (coordinators) who will work as >> intermediaries between the current maintainer/contributors and the >> wannabe contributors *by posting* the received requests for help into >> the central system and *by confirming* the external offers or the >> completion of a task; >> 3b) appoint some volunteers who will work like moderators do in mailing >> list *by checking* (for consistency, tagging, form, and so on) the >> requests for help *already directly* posted by the >> maintainers/contributors into the central system. >> > > ok and thanks for the summary > > >> If we agree about this initial draft of the project, we may try to ask >> in webs...@libreoffice.org if/how/where it's possible to implement this >> idea and, above all, we should ask in other projects ML (all?) how much >> consensus there is about this idea, because, who knows, current >> contributors may prefer fragmentation (even language based one) rather >> than centralization. >> > > I'm not sure you will have feedback before having done something, see we're > only two in the conversation for now. So lets implement a first draft and a > description of the process, we may get more feedback later. > > >> BTW, I'm still puzzled from the @libreoffice.org @documentfoundation.org >> and @lists.freedesktop.org division for mailing lists. It's nearly a >> nightmare for a potential contributor to understand where to write and >> why. :( >> > > We could may be reduce the gap between @freedesktop and the @libreoffice, > but @documentfoundation is necessary for the TDF related discussions. Or may > be it's not well enough documented, is that what you mean? > > So, I find this to be a very good idea :-) What should be done, at this stage? Write a proposal on the wiki? discuss it here? It obviously needs to go somewhere :) Best, Charles. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to projects+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
