Hi,
Le 8 juin 08 à 21:58, a écrit :
>
> I've received a couple emails from people asking how they can help
> with this effort.
>
> When I was deciding whether or not to propose this TC, I asked
> myself what would be needed to succeed. If it was just me, it would
> not succeed. It it was just me and 2 or 3 ODF experts, it would not
> succeed. I think that a TC like this would require at least 6
> participants, ideally comprised of experts in the following areas:
> • Representatives from the major ODF-capable applications -- at the
> very least OpenOffice (Sun and Novell versions), Symphony, KOffice,
> Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Microsoft Office.
> • A couple of people who know the ODF standard well
> • A "toolsmith", someone with excellent scripting ability (e.g.,
> Python)and knowledge of XML in general to help create time-saving
> automation tools that will make this effort possible.
> • Someone with a formal quality assurance background who can guide
> the team into creating high quality test cases. I know many of us
> know the basics, from unit testing, etc. But it is good to have
> someone take the overall responsibility for the quality process.
> • A technical writer/editor for the TC's formal output
> • Someone with good outreach skills, especially into organizations
> that have adopted ODF. Especially on the real-world
> interoperability tests, I think we need to get into their heads,
> through interviews or site visits, and see what interop issues they
> are really facing, and make sure that this information is guiding
> the priorities of the work. No sense in us spending months on text
> styles if spreadsheet formulas are the things that are causing the
> most problems.
> • Experts in specialties such as accessibility, right-to-left
> (BiDi) writing systems, East Asian writing systems, etc., so we
> craft good test cases for these areas.
> • Someone foolish enough to volunteer to lead this all
>
> These don't all necessarily need to be different people. For
> example, an ODF expert could all represent an ODF application and
> also be the toolsmith. But these are the kinds of skills that I
> think are essential to the TC, if the effort is to succeed.
>
> -Rob
Well I can help with the 6th point at least and forwarded the OIIC
call to JM. Gouarné, the author of OODoc.
Cheers,
Charles-H. Schulz
Associé / Founding Partner,
Ars Aperta
