Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Conference 2011, Personal Summary

Hi Nik, *,
Am 24.10.2011 16:41, schrieb Nik:
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed mention in a couple of places here of the need for us to
> make it clearer how we operate.

+1

> While I don't have a complete solution, there is an aspect that affects
> me (and I imagine, quite a few others) that I'd like to propose a simple
> solution to;
>
> Our "tasks/work items" page. It is too long, unkept and badly-sectioned
> to be useful as a tool for knowing what needs to be done.
> While I realise it isn't going to become an amazing productivity tool
> overnight, there are some small improvements that we could make to make
> it more useful.
>
> I've created a quick copy on my own wiki user-page to run past you
> before making any changes to the actual task-list.
> Please check this link;
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Nik#Proposed_rearrange_of_Design_Work_items
>
>
> I would propose we;
>
> * Separate out items that are "ACTIVE", "ON-HOLD" and "COMPLETED"
> into three separate tables so that people interested in doing
> things only have to check the top table.
> * Keep the items in the tables short so that our members can more
> easily see what needs attention right now and what is going on
> that they would be interested in. Colour coding will help. More
> detailed information should just be linked to.
> * We need to have deadlines, whether we meet them or not (because we
> are all volunteers). Otherwise everything will end up as an
> incomplete task that lasts forever.
> * We need to have a client and a representative who speaks on their
> behalf. That will give us a point of reference rather than having
> endless internal communication.
> * We need to be organised and update this ourselves and move
> finished jobs out, or move jobs that are on-hold into that table.
> They shouldn't just stay in the active table.
>
>
> and most drastically;
>
> * *We should LIMIT the number of active tasks to just 3-4.* Anything
> else should not be added until something can be taken off and
> moved to the completed table. With fewer tasks, we can focus more,
> we can track them better, we can push them out faster, we can
> unify our fragmented efforts and we can be held accountable when
> we don't get things done, because it will show.
>
>
> What do you think?

Good idea.

Some first thoughts/questions about it:
- Who will determine the priorities?  I think mostly our lead(s). This 
should be noticed so we won't get some ugly discussion (as on the 
website/wiki).
- Who will determine where to put an item (active - on-hold)?
- As I understand your proposal, the items will be more different than 
the work-item-list [1]. Will you/we make a list to collect the different 
items before 1st of november?
- The status "On hold" won't be necessary because then it will be in the 
"ON-HOLD" list
- The status "Being finalised" won't be necessary because then it will 
be in the "completed archive" list or you must have a coloumn "Status" 
in this list, too.
- What is the difference between "In proposal" an "In progress"? Maybe 
this should be described.
- What will happen, if someone tells that he wants to work on a 
"ON-HOLD" item, but the list of active items is 'full' and the others 
don't think it is extremly neceassary to work on it? We won't prevent 
him to work on it. Example: Aleksander made some (great) design 
proposals "out of time".
- Maybe this example can be a extra list: "GENERAL items" with no priority.
- I'm not sure if we shouldn't colour the "On-HOLD" list, too

Ok, let me stop here for now.


[1]http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Work_Items


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Grüße
k-j

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