Subject: potential POW -- revive feature and UI matrices?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 14:41:33 CST
Well, it's been a year since the following status pages were introduced.
http://www.abisource.com/feature_matrix.html
http://www.abisource.com/ui_matrix.html
At the time, I thought that they could be really useful for folks on this
list because it'd give everyone a shared sense of which things need
attention.
Here are four scenarios for how this can work, depending on who you are:
1. impexp maintainer for a single file format
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Make your column in the feature matrix green.
2. platform expert
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Help make your column in the ui matrix greener. If you're feeling
ambitious, pick a red row and do the necessary XP work, too.
3. core developer adding a new feature
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Figure out which rows need to be added.
4. where can I help without hacking?
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Pick a cell, column, or row that you care about. Beat on AbiWord. Tell us
about anything that doesn't Just Work in that area by adding the appropriate
info to Bugzilla. Summarize what you've found by sending a message to this
list, proposing the relevant changes to that cell, column, or row. Repeat a
week or a month later. Complain politely that nobody cares enough about
your feature to finish it.
bottom line
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With Bob gone, these documents have gone largely unmaintained, which greatly
limits their usefulness. Would people in categories 1, 2, and 3 find
information in this format useful?
If so, then perhaps a POW to get a bunch of folks to take over category 4
would be in order.
Paul
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