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Hi Greg.
I think what you describe is what is needed to drive LO from the
enthusiasts arena to main stream adoption.
But as the enthusiasts are doing all the work, it requires good
management or they will no longer be enthusiastic.
steve

On 12/04/11 08:48, Greg wrote:
Without wishing to rain on anyone's parade or do unsavoury things to 
campfires, I think there's been a lot of great design thought here in 
isolation of a good, hard, implementation agnostic think about enumerating the 
real use cases. 

When I say use cases, I don't mean anything to do with how to build it, what 
looks pretty or cool but what REAL user goals need meeting, what tasks need 
doing and which actors are involved. Then perhaps a check with users of Word 
processors generally (i.e. not posters on this forum and not necessarily LibO 
users only) about how well the proposed use cases would address any actual 
need.

Of course, some may prefer an agile approach, with epics, and user stories and 
acceptance tests, &c. but I don't think LibO development is organised that 
way?

Until we've got some concrete, well written use cases validated with users, 
the batting back and forth of designs and insiders' preferences seems a little 
premature.

Incidentally, I don't think the use cases should be constrained by what the 
current navigator's capabilities are.

I'm happy to get the ball rolling on the use case goals, to start with but 
I'll wait to see what everyone thinks first.

Cheers,

Greg

  

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