Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New Features List

Hi Sophie,

thanks for answering,

On Thursday 20 January 2011 16:57, Sophie Gautier wrote:
> On 20/01/2011 18:25, Nino Novak wrote:

> > 1) Where do the developers list new features?
>
> in there commits and there is a weekly summary provided each week on
> the dev list (my personal thanks go to Kohei commits: clear, shorts
> and descriptives :)

ok 

> > 2) Who does it "translate" into a human readable draft feature
> > list? (assumed: Wiki[2])
>
> This time it was me, but that was done in emergency for the needs of
> the different groups (l10n/QA/Doc/Marketing) so it was not really
> human readable, Marc Paré has help to list it with the OOo features
> on the wiki, then some others help to complete it.

ok


> > 3) What about this page
> >     http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Weekly_Summary ?
>
> this was the basis for the work

but has not been continued any more since week 44?


> > 4) Who transforms the draft feature list[2] into a user-friendly&
> > marketing-approved website announcement page[1]?
>
> Michael Meeks because nobody else did the job. I think Thorsten
> polished it tonight. Mark Morin is working on the screen shots and
> I'll try to finish screen shots tonight too.

Ok, then it is "qa-ed" by the developers, that's fine. (No doubt about 
your competence but just wanting to know it)


> > And finally 5)
> > Is the above process documented somewhere?
>
> Not yet because that was not a good process.
>
> If you can wait a bit until the 3.3 is out, I then have already work
> on a process with developers (at least Thorsten) to have a much
> better list (a BZ number for each feature open, managed by QA people
> and a script to retrieve the list).

Fine.


> Then there should be really less work needed to add details and the
> list will be ready and useful for all groups at feature freeze.
>
> Well now finally I have a question:

You're wellcome :)

> Why all these questions?

1) Because I did not find the process documented 

> :) Would you like to work on it the next 
> time?

2) No. I'm not an english native speaker nor *OfficeSuite specialist ;)

3) But I love transparent processes, so anybody can reproduce and 
understand them (quality by obviousness) and participating is made easy

and finally (the real selfish reason ;) )
4) We are translating the page (into German) and were asking us, at what 
stage the translation makes sense.

Nino

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