Hi Norbert, On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> wrote: > But here you are taking advantage of the fact that these candidates > happen to also be core developer to corner them.
Of course. :-) That's "politics" right? But seriously, this is - to me, a non-dev but someone who would dearly like to be able to step across the threshold - a crucial issue. Perhaps established devs do not see it like that. But, as a technical documentation professional, perhaps I see it in a different light. In any case, I can tell you - and you perhaps already know this well through your own work - in a commercial environment, programmers are generally expected - *contractually required* - to properly document their product, especially from the design and maintenance viewpoint. For me, the LibreOffice project can only gain in credibility and numbers of "hackers" from having design documentation that opens the doors to a much larger number of code contributors and maintainers. Fed up with hearing people demanding features that can't be implemented or that you don't have time to implement? Provide good design documentation and a) they might understand better the reasons for the non-feasibility or b) they might start offering more patches and practical contributions to implementation. I realise that some people will feel that this design documentation will be a non-optimal usage of valuable core dev time, and will hold up (only slightly) dev work. But I am convinced that it will bring real fruits in terms of contributor recruitment - more individual hackers but also enterprise/organizational contributors. I also feel it will enhance the project's image and credibility, and will set an important example in the Open Source community in general and to our audiences in particular. The availability of decent design documentation can certainly be a deciding factor for many potential organizational and enterprise adopters. > Their candidacy to the Board and the task they propose to tackle is > completely orthogonal to your proposal, the best proof is that you did > not ask such commitment from Italo. Sincerely, I feel that, as a TDF member, I have every right - duty even - to inform myself about the policies and attitudes of the candidates, and to see what their responses are to my specific requests. Voilà, with a friendly smile. :-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
