Wow, i think this must be one of the most powerful and empowering comments i've ever seen on any Linux forums...
"hat is, an average-knowledged database user should be able to understand the product from the specification, and grasp enough ideas to even document it for others (or help others, that is). Ciao Frank" _____________________________________________________ --- Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mechtilde, > > >> Hi Marc, > >> > >>> The RD has been a project on it's own long > before it was adapted to > >>> OO.o, as could be read in some announcements. So > there must be a website > >>> somewhere and on this website there must be > documentation. A project of > >>> this size will never evolve without any docs. > >> How idealistic ... > >> > >> > http://dba.openoffice.org/specifications/index.html, > document "Report > >> Designer" is everything about the SRD from our > side. > > > > I read the specifications sevaral times. For my > opinion it is very > > difficult to understand how it should work > especially you don't know how > > it could work. > > > > The spcifications are technical documents but no > documents where the > > user can read how to use it. > > Agreed, and I'm not happy with that. To me, it seems > our beloved > specification process doesn't have a clear (in the > sense of: everybody > committed to it) idea of who the stakeholder for > (aka *reader* of) a > specification is. > > Personally, I think a specification should (also) > allow people - without > the deepest technical knowledge in the matter - to > document the end user > functionality. That is, an average-knowledged > database user should be > able to understand the product from the > specification, and grasp enough > ideas to even document it for others (or help > others, that is). > > Ciao > Frank > > -- > - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > - Sun Microsystems > http://www.sun.com/staroffice - > - OpenOffice.org Base > http://dba.openoffice.org - > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - - - > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "En el jardin de tu corazón, no plantes sino la rosa del amor." Bahá´u´lláh Fundación Anisa, A.C. www.fundacionanisa.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
