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

+1 to Bernhard.
Now that that's out of the way, I request you to please consider Phil's 
proposal. I think that almost all (if not all) the steps he mentioned 
are being followed now too, just in a unorganized way. I believe that 
bringing a organized and managed scheme for new ideas and conveying it 
to the people involved in a clear manner will tidy up and improve the 
productivity of the entire process.

Thanks,
Vamsi.

On 05/25/2011 04:59 PM, Phil Jackson wrote:
> 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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