On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > RGB ES wrote: >> >> 2013/3/19 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >> >>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna >>> <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> RGB ES wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > <snip> > >>>> Hi Ricardo; >>>> >>>> I appreciate the link and hopefully it will prompt people to start using >>> >>> it >>>> >>>> more. I have been wracking my brains trying to think of ways to get more >>>> people interested. We seem to have had a flurry after the initial >>>> announcement, but except for a few entries in the status document I see >>>> nothing except your excellent work. We need to figure out some way to >>>> attract people with the skill and knowledge to start on the other >>>> applications. >>>> >>> >>> I think we need more "hand holding" and guidance for new volunteers. >>> Just pointing them to wiki is not enough. With QA new volunteers I >>> gave them specific assignments at first, e.g., review these 10 bug >>> reports. I know it sounds odd to "assign" tasks to volunteers, but >>> until they find their way around and self-assign tasks, this is a good >>> way for them to get started. In return, with QA, I promised to review >>> their early work and give them feedback. >>> >>> So I wonder if we can come up with set of specific tasks, of various >>> sizes, from 1 to 8 hours, and specifically asked new volunteers to >>> pick from that list? It might work better. >>> > It is certainly worth a try. We have hard virtually nothing from many of the > volunteers since there initial contact. >
Another thing would be for one of the moderators of the mailing list to cross reference current list subscribers with those who said they wanted to help. Some of them may not have subscribed to the list. With the QA team I did that and then sent reminders to those who were not yet signed up. Any moderator can request the subscriber list by sending this commend from their moderator email address: doc-l...@openofice.apache.org Although you should not share the list publicly, since it has everyone's email address, it would be interesting to know how many people are subscribed in total. -Rob >> >> That's a good idea. The tasks I can think of are two: >> >> - Proofreading of still not checked pages >> - Accuracy / clarity: ask the volunteer to follow the steps described to >> see if they work or not. > > Is version 4.0 far enough along in the development cycle that accuracy > checking is feasible or should we have 2 rounds of checking? The first > against 3.4.1 to clean up any problems there and then a second more in depth > one when 4.0 is more stable. >> >> >> Regards >> Ricardo >> > >> <snip> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
