HI :) Base needs to have some documentation to help devs understand what it's trying to do.
With the other apps it's much easier to have an overview even without having any documentation but Base is a lot more complex. Also there needs to be some discussion between devs and other people to decide what to use instead of java, and the direction to take generally. Apparently the default HqSql back-end is fairly troublesome but there is a new project "MariaDb" that is a drop-in replacement for MySql that might be much better as a back-end. MariaDb is basically almost the entire community that worked on MySql including some of the original people plus a load of new people that joined since the project broke free from Sun/Oracle. Anyway it needs a small team of people to try out different back-ends to see which are viable as back-ends and which might be easiest to have as the default one. Perhaps bringing their recommendation back to steering-discuss to make an informed vote. As i understand it the current infra-structure is leading to Base gently crumbling away through neglect. Experienced devs steer well away from Base. New ones need to learn more understanding about coding or about Base or about both. Every time an individual joins and is keen to work on some aspect of Base they realise it's a completely tangled mess and they would be the only person working on it so they get discouraged and give-up. Yes it would be great to have input from the entire devs list but 1. They are not interested in Base 2. The non-coders that want to do non-coding work on Base (eg Documentation, perhaps marketing, perhaps design of aspects of the UI that only appear in Base, the wizards and so on) would be unable to understand. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 11/9/11, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com> wrote: From: Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com> Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list? To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 16:59 Hi Tom, On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 14:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > A few people have asked about starting up a new mailing list to try to > bring together people that want to work on Base. People from > Documentation, Developers perhaps later on some people from Design. Is there already a diverse set of private mails on the topic ? that show a mailing list is useful ? the developers list discusses work on all components - and of course the idea of a Base: suffix is there. Also - given the volume of devs. on the dev list you may well get some advice and assistance :-) > At the moment there are people that want to work on Base but each > is isolated and 'waiting' for people on other teams to do things What needs to be done before the bug fixing starts - that's what I'm interested in ? :-) I see Lionel fixing some bugs but ... ;-) Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
