[...] I was just trying
to comment that we were actually the people building the tool and it
would be quite the opportunity here to better fine tune our tool in
this process while the document team had a direct feed to the devs.
not sure what you mean by having "a direct feed to the devs" (I'm not a
native speaker so sometimes I have to ask for better understanding,
sorry)
I think we should roughly catch requirements, then ASAP pick and provide
appropriate tools and start working as soon as possible. Fine tuning
can be done successively, as all parties will be learning by doing.
Call it prototyping or similar, I'm not an expert here.
What better way to prove that your tool if built for complete
document production from start to finish.
The tool has to be adequate/appropriate. For Internet collaboration,
mere ODF is not (yet) good enough, wiki and web are far more
appropriate. But nonetheless, it's a challenge to set up appropriate
workflows and supportive tools (and BTW that's one of the reasons for
me to participate here).
But I understand that there are time and schedule constraints to
meet.
Don't forget that we are setting our constraints ourselves
N.