Re: [libreoffice-design] Flying the ship... [please everybody, post a short reply]

Hi Bernhard

We need some structure and therefore we need someone unofficially or 
officially to lead it. I'm more than happy for you to take on that role.

If possible, I'd like to see a degree of formalisation of how the design 
team will work together with suggestions of stages for taking an idea 
and transforming it into a form that we have agreement on for submission 
to the pool of programmers.

This is about building relationships between the design team members but 
also between the design team and programmers so they feel part of the 
design team.

It's like selling ideas to management - well articulated ideas with 
supporting evidence should make a difference in getting done what the 
Design Team thinks by consensus is necessary to improve the product.

Here are some suggestions for stages;

1) Someone comes up with an idea
2) Idea is posted on Design/WhiteBoards and emailed to team members
3) Idea is discussed and debated with ample opportunity to test idea and 
gather arguments for and against
4) Goes to vote stage by design members after member proposes that they 
do this  - if passed goes to Stage 5)
5) A Design/Whiteboards paper for the idea if constructed giving a 
formalised breakdown of the idea -
i.e. Overview, Introduction, Main Body with evidence, conclusions (why 
idea is a good one) and references/bibliography.
6) Submitted to programmers pool for their feedback.
7) Followup

We need to make this reasonably professional without turning it into a 
Phd. It makes it transparent for all.

I know that some of these things are already done, but using a system 
will make it more likely that progress is seen to be made on some very 
interesting and beneficial ideas.

What does everybody think?

Cheers

Phil Jackson

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