@Sophie: don't you have any regard at all for the community bylaws'
stated principles? It makes one wonder, because you're actually one of
the MC members... And I'm not sure that all SC members would
necessarily disagree with what I explained in my previous post...
David Nelson
@David, I must wonder what your intentions are with this community.
Hi,
The documentation team currently has no lead, and, IMHO, we are unable
to function effectively like this. To make some *effective* progress
with producing the large amount of documentation that is currently
lacking, someone needs to become acting documentation team lead until
such time that TDF makes an official appointment.
I have 25 years of professional experience working with technical
documentation. I have only been involved in LibreOffice since the TDF
launch, but I have been doing some writing, proofreading and reviewing
for the project over the past couple of months. I am concerned and
care about the current state of inactivity and disarray in
documentation work.
I offer to taken on the leadership and coordination of the team until
that time. Florian Effenberger has agreed to grant me wiki
administrator rights, so I will be able to do things such as
reorganize the documentation pages, move pages, protect pages, delete
pages, undelete pages and various other actions necessary for
establishing a workflow for the docs team.
I plan to organize regular team phone conferences, and to listen
carefully to the ideas and opinions that team members voice. But then,
after that, when a decision needs to be taken in order to allow
tangible progress with the team's work, I plan to announce a decision
and to proceed with whatever action is necessary to make it happen.
Obviously, I can't do all the work by myself, and I am hoping that
team members will feel that it's worthwhile to cooperate and
contribute, and that a significant number of you will also take part
in the work with me.
If anyone feels that they are better qualified to take on this role,
and is willing to put significant time and work into the project to
make things really start happening, then please do speak up, and we
can let meritocracy and natural democracy decide the issue. If there
are other candidates, we can organize a vote by team members. (Let's
define a team member as someone who speaks up in this thread, and who
is willing to actually work on documentation, not just lurk silently
or unproductively flame and distract the debate.)
I have already approached some SC members. They told me that the
organization is not yet there to make any official appointment, but
that there is no reason why I can't take on the role on an acting
basis, if I can convince team members to work with me. So I have
*some* kind of tacit approval to try and make this work. Let's say
that my understanding is that they will stand back and watch what
develops. And then at a later date they will make their official
decisions as they see fit. But this is certainly *not* an
officially-approved initiative.
I want to provoke a response from as many of you as possible.
If you support my "coup d'etat", respond with +1.
If you feel you're a better candidate, then please speak up and tell
us *why* and what your concretely propositions are. In that case, I
hope you're willing to back that up by contributing lots of active
work and time to the project. Because I promise that *I* am.
If you actively disapprove of my initiative, then respond with -1.
If you lurk and say nothing, I will consider that I have your tacit
approval.
Please can *all* concerned documentation workers please speak up?
(Idle flamers and trolls, please refrain from adding unproductive
noise to this discussion.)
David Nelson
After you wrote this you were voted in and then apparently abandoned
post to work on the website. Ron Faile Jr., Jean Hollis Weber and others
completed some workflow for the wiki.
You then pushed for Alfresco, but didn't seem to do much in the way
of making it usable for the team. I used Jean Hollis Weber's workflow
and Ron Faile Jr.'s interpretation of that workflow to create a usable
tool for the team. After the site was usable, replete with reports, you
began getting involved and promptly erased every scrap of work the team
had contributed since LibreOffice began.
What's more, you told us so and then went silent. I salvaged some work,
Hal reimplemented some space structure and there was not an offer of
help from you, nor response when questioned directly.
When Jean Hollis Weber noticed a vacuum and the necessity for our team
to have a lead, she humbly offered her service. This is when you have
chosen to re-emerge with what seems vitriol toward contributing members
of the docs team.
I must wonder what your intentions are with this community.
Personally, I'd like to see one-big-happy. Currently, we are not one,
we are not big, and we are not happy.
-- jdc