Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New Features List

Hi Nino,
On 20/01/2011 19:16, Nino Novak wrote:
> 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?

this was feature freeze. In the dev process, once feature freeze date 
appears, their is l10n/QA/Doc/Marketing tasks that can be consolidated, 
because no new features won't be added, only code fixes will appear in 
the product.
> > > 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)

oh, it's ok. I've sent the list to the dev@ list to make sure I didn't 
forget somebody's baby or change it too much ;)
> > > 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 ;)

few of us are here ;)
> 3) But I love transparent processes, so anybody can reproduce and
> understand them (quality by obviousness) and participating is made easy

yes, that will be, because I don't want to spend my time here too ;)
> 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.

the list as is imho doesn't make much sense. It needs more details/love 
to transform it on a marketing or documentation tool.

Kind regards
Sophie

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