Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Passing on an idea that came up in a discussion on the OOoAuthors list... > > Michele Zarri wrote: > ...what we need in my opinion is a kind of user guide issuezilla > where we could capture: > - "Roadmap" items i.e. improvements made to the program that are > not captured in the user guide. When a version of OOo is > released, normally it comes with a very comprehensive list of > what has been added. all we need to do is for people who are > familiar with the contents of the User guide to check what should > be added and create an "issue" > - "bug" items i.e. typos, wrong procedures... > - "Request for enhancement" items, i.e. topics that are not > adequately covered or not covered at all in the user guide. > > My comment: we need something like this, but easy to find, add to, and > annotate ... definitely NOT using the existing issuezilla system (not > that I think Michele was suggesting that). > > IMO, such a concept (or at least a first iteration of it) could quickly > and easily be implemented on the wiki as a simple page, or series of > pages. No doubt better and more sophisticated solutions can be found, > but in my experience the easiest ones are more likely to actually be > used, despite their flaws.
Agreed, absolutely. > Many "roadmap" items would be relevant to several forms of user docs, > and "RFE" items could be too -- or in some cases we might want to > discuss what's the best place for a particular one (how-to, user guide, > whatever). What would the roadmap/dashboard encompass? I started to list projects here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation We could set up a main Documentation/Dashboard page that has a table with the documents/projects and the high level data and link to subpages with detailed data like bugs, RFEs, open issues, discussions, etc. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
