Hi Marc, Le 14/12/10 16:12, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > I think that most are under the impression, as I, that the Silverstripe > will be migrated to the final Drupal website within the next 6 months as > detailed in the SC declaration. You may also review Michael Wheatlands > notes on this here: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.website/145 My aim was not to criticise the development that has been done or is underway, with regard to the website, but simply to point out that a degree of uncertainty was sufficiently present in people's minds as to provoke a longwinded discussion on the mailing list. As far as I was concerned, I thought the SC had already decided that the site currently under development with Silverstripe CMS would be migrated to Drupal in the coming months. Unfortunately, I think that the consequence of that is that people who might want to contribute are waiting off until the Drupal site comes online, rather than getting stuck in with Silverstripe and producing content. Why else are we still running around trying to drum up enough content to put the various bits of the Silverstripe site online. The German group is debating at the moment as to the appropriateness of even making their site live if the English site is still considered "under development", incomplete or dare I say it "too verbose". As far as I know, the French group is ready to go. I have no idea about the others, as I'm not subscribed to any of the other language specific groups. This is what I mean by lack of a centralized body making decisions. We could all just hang around for another 3 months, or actually put the sites up. Who ultimately makes those decisions ? Does it really matter anyway, so long as we are providing our respective communities with relevant information ? I certainly can't speak for the SC on those questions, or the governing board as and when it manages to materialise. My point is that people doubted what had been decided with regard to what was supposed to be happening and that this doubt is the result of a lack of clearly transcribed decision making, or alternatively a lack of sufficient communication towards those members of the community who are volunteering to do the work. Yes, people can read the transcripts of the conference calls, but what they need are easily accessible header points clearly stating where we are going, how we are going to achieve it, and the estimated time frame for doing so. I don't mean just with regard to the website, I mean with regard to the project as a whole. If you look at the documentation, you will see we are in a similar quandry / state of flux with regard to how we are getting organised, which workflow we will be using and which tools are adapted to that task. In my experience, Direction doesn't just occur through Brownian motion, it is given by leadership in some shape or form (not that I wish to be the leader by any means). It is the general overall fuzziness at the moment which leaves me somewhat perplexed, and I can't see this being resolved until a legal entity is in place that will have some form of system to channel people's ardours and optimise and harness their willingness to contribute to the project. Just my 2c. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***