On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: >> >> In due course, when we've all had a little rest after the release of AOO >> 3.4.1, it will be necessary to do some triage work on the Brainstorming, so >> that the most requested changes make their way onto the planning table for >> AOO 4.0. Many of the suggestions can be amalgamated, for example improved >> doc/docx, xls/xlsx etc support; within reason these can all be amalgamated >> into "improved support for MS Office formats, current and legacy". Other >> suggestions are readily achievable by existing faciites in OpenOffice; such >> requests might indicate need for better education of Users or more >> accessible documentation/tutorials. >> >> Supposing that the Brainstorm is continued beyond AOO 4.0, should we prune >> it in the light of whatever choices are made for AOO 4.0; should we also >> register comments against some of the already readily achievable functions, >> to give pointers to (say) the Forums and/or tutorials which indicate how to >> do that function? >> >> Could we have some discussion on how best to analyse and progress the >> current nearly 300 suggestions [as of date of posting) >> > > We're getting a lot more feedback than I expected: 305 people have > submitted 284 ideas and cast 3,106 votes. > > IMHO, this is wonderful. In some sense the voting process itself > helps triage, especially if project members are also submitting ideas > and voting, which I hope we all are.
Not all of us have the time. > > I like your idea of combining closely related or duplicate ideas. > Maybe in the end we could promote a "top 10" list of ideas, in a blog > post, and collect also commentary from project members related to > these top 10 ideas. I think that coming back to ooo-dev with "Top" ideas is appropriate. > > Another approach would be to take the top ideas and use them as > additional input to a survey design that Kevin and Graham were looking > into. We could take the top 10 (or 20) ideas and in the survey ask > users to rate them. FYI - The ASF Board has created a new TLP called Apache Steve which will expose the Voting mechanism used by the ASF membership. Regards, Dave > > That help us get around the natural bias of Google Moderator, which is > that ideas submitted first will get more votes because they've had > more time to be voted on. > > Regards, > > -Rob > >> -- >> Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
