Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kendy's Work in LO GUI+Help

Hi guys.

2011/4/1 Andre Schnabel <Andre.Schnabel@gmx.net>

> Hi Olivier,
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Von: Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org>
>
> > LO went into a new and frenetic development pace which concerns me if no
> > strong leadership and planning is not well conducted.
>
> I slightly disagree here on the term "leadership". I'd rather see
> "collaboration" here (kathedral vs. bazaar).
> But after all, some early brainstorming / decision making / specification
> would be very appreciated, as well as documentation.

+1. Leadership occurs naturally. There's no need for naming a leader.


> > On top of the need for specs (often seen as a unimportant and cumbersome
> > task by casual developers) I am struggling with the radical changes of
> > the configuration of the software since release 3.2 that has almost no
> > document on how to make it work for you, much less on examples and
> > snippets.
>
> Well - good example, that "strong leadership" itself does not really help
> to prevent such things. The new configuration was implemented under
> OOo's (Sun's) "strong leadership" model (with all the requests for
> specification, qa, documentation etc. in place).
> I don'T want to say, that missing documentation is a good thing -
> just, that you don't create the docs by enforcing leadership.

Yeap! There's a lot of examples out there too. Not only about document
creation, but in any community made jobs.
But I don't want to get in Philosofic issues in this thread.


> > For me, no new feature should be released without proper
> > /help/user/admin documentation, even if this is is slowing the pace of
> > the release schedule.
>
>
> "Proper" is a very subjective term. I'd like to see a basic documentation
> from the developer - a a certain place (something like OOo's spec
> project, but not such bloated spec document formalism). This should
> be reviewed and enhacend by other community members (in collaboration
> with the developer).

+1. Collaboration is basics.


> regards,
Cheers


> André
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