I think this project is moving a bit beyond what I currently have skill and time to complete with quality. I think it would be best for me to pass the current work on to someone else. Would the best course of action be to update the EasyHacks page with a notice of the current progress on the hack, an attachment of the file, and maybe a link to this mailing list conversation? I look forward to helping out LO in other ways soon.
Thanks, Daniel On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 22:32 -0500, Daniel Neel wrote: > > Ok, a quick status update on this. Have been working on it some more - > > the current code is available at http://dneelyep.webs.com . Notes on > > the current progress below. > > Ooh :-) it looks really sweet ! This is a great start Daniel. > > > Added a Submit button - not currently setup to bring up a pre-filled > > bug report. > > I wonder, if we can't avoid showing the bugzilla page entirely - > and > simply provide a nicer whizzy front-end for that. > > > Does anyone have more suggestions by chance to improve this? I'm > > definitely interested :). > > Yes; making it more lush and graphical would be good for a start. > As an > example - the process of binary chopping documents down is really useful > to understand - IMHO we need more documentation on that, perhaps with a > picture of a document being chopped to help people understand. > > I think we probably also need to make the questions easier to > understand (think expert friendly, but idiot proof), of course this will > require a lot of thought to get the taxonomy right: > > Radio buttons: > ( ) can you crash LibreOffice somehow ? > ( ) does your document not look right when it is loaded ? > ( ) did other people have trouble reading the document > you sent ? > ( ) is there an unpleasant user interaction that makes it > difficult to use ? > [ if several of these, please file multiple reports ] > > I would also tend to hide everything else (including the submit > button) until the data is useful - so people have a fairly linear flow. > > ( ) can you crash LibreOffice somehow ? > ( ) does this happen when you load or save a certain > document ? > + link to making minimal documents blurb :-) > ( ) is there a simple set of steps, and button clicks > that can crash with no document loaded ? > + link to how-to-get-stacktrace documentation > ( ) is the crash intermittent and un-predictable ? > + link to how-to-get-stacktrace documentation > > ( ) does your document not look right when it is loaded ? > + link to making minimal documents blurb > [x] I am certain that I have the correct fonts installed > on the system for this document > + link to fc-list (Linux), and Mac/Win details > + NB. the 'font' drop-down in LO lies - we > should explain that. > + ask for screenshots before / after of the problem > > ( ) did other people have trouble reading the document > you sent ? > ( ) Do you have the original document in OpenDocument > format ? > No == very hard to work out what went wrong. > can you try to reproduce what you did, and > first save it in ODF, before exporting ... > Yes == link to producing minimal document > description ;-) > > ( ) is there an unpleasant user interaction that makes it > difficult to use ? > + no idea where to go here I guess. > > I suspect we could avoid asking which component is involved, and > just > look at up-loaded test document / file extensions in many cases to > auto-select the component. > > I liked your proxies for severity: "causes loss of content" etc. - > asking people the severity of their bug is almost never a good idea :-) > [ which is why I like the plan to hide the actual bug form from them ]. > > Anyhow - this is a really sexy initiative :-) Hopefully we can get > some > more artwork support from the design team, to actually make it fun / > pretty to file really good bugs. > > What can we do to make it easier to file ? eg. can we wrap the > account > creation flow in some pleasant way ? Perhaps that should be step #1 - > without an E-mail address and a real account, it is fairly pointless > filing a bug IMHO. > > Thanks ! > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > > >
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