I heard there's a few people who are new here, so i wanted to explain a little how stuff works around here, i'm quite new myself so i might miss a few things, but these are the basics.
1-Mailing list We communicate using the mailing list, it can be a bit annoying at first but you get used to it. I'll explain a bit, people create conversations or "streams" each of them is used to talk about a certain topic. Since some people read this on ancient era devices, (you know, like palms, and other stuff that used to be cool) you are supposed not to use HTML (bold, italics, underline, etc) and you should cut your lines at about 75 characters (No, you are not supposed to count it, i think this long is fine) to avoid sidescrolling (ugly bar at the bottom) The mailing list is used to discuss everything from how we like our pancakes (that's not true, don't do that) to suggest improvements for proposals and introduce new ideas. (that is true, do that) 2-Whiteboards The whiteboards are magical places where your proposals bloom to become the next ideas included into LibO (that's for Libre Office) They have a few sections that you can understand by reading the Whiteboard template [1] These are in a wiki, so you can edit them to add proposals and info that you believe needs to be there. 3-The circle of work. We are currently working on improving our workflow, so this could change. When the week starts, we get the projects we have to work on, currently we are working on a remote for Impress [2], and some dialog box i'm sure we'll hear about soon. During the week, proposals are uploaded to the respective whiteboard, then discussed in the mailing list. The idea is that by the end of the week we have already made an incredibly awesome improvement (Incredible awesomeness is mandatory) and addressed all the problems that came up in the process. Also there's a chat on Saturdays at 16:00 GMT (The time in the center of the known universe, aka, Greenwich) i'm not sure of what that's about. Hope this helped anyone who needed it. Links: [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Whiteboard_Template [2]https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Impress_remote -- 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.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
