PPIG discuss: Software as she is wrote

2007-09-29 Thread Frank Wales
The history of the new 'Export to MediaWiki' option on OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48409 First, submit a vague bug report because the program you use doesn't do what you want it to, and suggest that it should be pretty easy for someone to fix this problem.

Re: PPIG discuss: Software as she is wrote

2007-09-29 Thread Howie Goodell
Hi -- I thought it was inspiring! Why? 1. Someone makes a good suggestion 2. Others quickly see its value, perhaps in ways the original suggester didn't -- it adds a WYSIWYG editor that MediaWiki and thus Wikipedia had lacked, as well as providing a route for all the companies who want to

Re: PPIG discuss: Software as she is wrote

2007-09-29 Thread Frank Wales
On 09/30/2007 01:55 AM, Howie Goodell wrote: Why am I impressed by such an obvious process? Because I've seen too many failures in the bad old corporate software development process that missed most or all of the above! The process was driven by widespread perception of customer needs.