On 10/24/2012 11:56 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
We have the following today:
1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This
lists a variety of people involved in the project, independent of
status.
yes, and I don't think it's up to date...it may need to go soonish.
2) I'd like to have a place for new volunteers to put their names,
preferably on the wiki or some place where a non-committer has easy
access.
Here's an idea...
we have/had the old "credits" page on the user portal web server:
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
I suggest we port this in its entirety to the wiki -- maybe even put in
a new "People" navigation item -- and continue to let people add
themselves to the list.
3) We have a list of Committers here, automatically generated:
http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo
4) We don't have anything that indicates which Committers are also PMC members.
We probably should list them on the project site...maybe a PMC page
instead of the outdated "people" page, if this is important. Maybe a
topic for further discussion.
5) We have this "credits" page, which is linked to from our Help/About
dialog box. But it does not appear to be updated for AOO 3.4.0 or
3.4.1: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
I see no reason why this page:
http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html
can't be moved in its entirety to the wiki -- maybe even put in a new
"People" navigation item in the main wiki navigation -- and continue to
let people add themselves to the list.
6) Wiki "User" pages
these are already there by the way, but some are quite outdated
7) Any others?
As we all know, with multiple lists like this things will get out of
synch. In fact they already have.
One simplification idea might be:
1) Convert the people.html page into a wiki page
2) Have that page indicate who is a Committer or PMC member. That can
be manual for now.
3) Point our Help/About box to the wiki page, and add sentence at the
end of the wiki that says, "OpenOffice has a long history and we also
thank those who contributed to it before our move to Apache" and then
link to credits.html
Any objections to this general idea? Any improvements?
And if we did want a place to have a big table of volunteers, where on
the wiki should we put it (CWiki or MWiki)?
-Rob
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