Alfresco: brainstorming on development of workflows, user groups, etc.

Hi,

I've been in a mail conversation with the Alfresco guys, notably Jeff
Potts (Chief Community Officer). Jeff is going to give me some
mentoring, and I am going to get started with the practical
implementation work as regards configuring/customizing our LibreOffice
Alfresco platform. If someone else wants to give practical help with
this, they are most welcome at any time.

Jeff is also setting-up an online meeting with the developer of the
currently-dormant OOo plugin for Alfresco so that we can explore how
to update it and get it operationally working with our current
LibreOffice version. This is scheduled to take place during the week
of June 27. Depending on how this initiative develops, we might
possibly be able to envision integrating it into a workflow for the
English docs team. I'm going to post on our LibreOffice devs list and
discuss the project there, too.

So the first practical step will be to establish with the English docs
team exactly what our needs and expectations are. Looking back at past
threads on this list, I guess we can already list the following:

* configure user groups with properly-configured powers;

* develop informative e-mail alerts for added/removed/edited content;

* develop automated workflows for the English docs team (which could
be subsequently replicated for other language projects to manage their
own docs
work, if they express interest). In connection with this, we'd need to
establish whether docs team contributors prefer the "classic" Alfresco
interface exposed at http://alfresco.libreoffice.org or the newer,
revised heavily-Ajax-powered powered Alfresco interface exposed at
http://documentation.libreoffice.org, or whether both should be
available simultaneously, as at present;

* develop a special world-facing site on documentation.libreoffice.org
and/or media.libreoffice.org to be a
showcase and download point for the platform's content for our end users;

* optionally, depending on how things pan out, configure our Alfresco platform
to properly function with the OOo/LibreOffice plugin for Alfresco, and
integrate that functionality into the EngDocs workflow.

Please could I hear your comments and suggestions about the above?
Once we get some kind of requirements spec figured out, the actual
practical work can start ASAP.

Hi,

I forgot to mention one other requirement we'd have:

* an automated matrix-style report detailing which chapters of which
books are in which step of our workflow, and who is currently working
on what.

So the first practical step will be to establish with the English docs
team exactly what our needs and expectations are. Looking back at past
threads on this list, I guess we can already list the following:

[snipped]

Please could I hear your comments and suggestions about the above?
Once we get some kind of requirements spec figured out, the actual
practical work can start ASAP.

David,
Thanks for the update. Everything in this and your other note sounds
great to me. I don't have anything to add, except to say that I much
prefer the interface at http://documentation.libreoffice.org. And thanks
for pursuing this!

--Jean

Hi Jean,

Thanks for the update. Everything in this and your other note sounds
great to me. I don't have anything to add, except to say that I much
prefer the interface at http://documentation.libreoffice.org. And thanks
for pursuing this!

OK, noted.

Anyone else have any comments/suggestions to contribute?