Hi Cor, On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote: > I see no link between the role of the BOD and individual members making > commitments to certain day to day tasks. > Is there something why I should, in your opinion?
I don't see anything incongruous about asking a candidate in the Board of Directors election about what commitments he might be willing to take on if elected. In fact, what else are you supposed to ask of candidates? > When I directed some people new on LibreOffice hacking to the various > developer wiki pages, they were positively surprised. Surprised? Or do you mean shocked and amazed at how little developer documentation there is about a major software project that has been developed for so many years? :-D I'm quite surprised you seem equate the very little content on the wiki to a useful provision of design documentation. In fact, there is little more than basic tips and instructions about compiling the code and a few other related issues. There is also a very small amount of API documentation at http://docs.libreoffice.org. I'm sure you'll agree that there is absolutely no design documentation of the kind I'm discussing (see [1]). There would be many advantages to developing some. I am putting this question before Michael, Thorsten and Caolan because, AFAIK, they are full-time, senior project members (sponsored by Novell, Suse and Red Hat, if I'm not mistaken), who most certainly have the greatest knowledge about LibreOffice's design and code base. They are the ideal people to work on design documentation, and I'm volunteering to work hard alongside them (without any suggestion of payment or sponsorship). It would be a major contribution and example to the community if they were willing to provide some time and expertise for this. I don't think I need to repeat the multiple other reasons why I think it's worth devoting some time and effort to this initiative, so I'll sit back and wait to see what answers might be forthcoming from the three BoD candidates I was originally addressing. ;-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_document -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
