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Re: [stp-dev] STP Usability Week
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Hi Adrian,
I think this is a great idea.
I was already planning on working in the Policy Editor area on a number
of usability things, some extra documentation and the integration
between the two policy editors so that would fit nicely.
Cheers,
David
Adrian Skehill wrote:
Hi There,
Over the last few weeks, I've done a number of presentations on the
STP, and people are very impressed with what we have done so far, and
our future plans. However, we start to run into some problems when it
comes to them getting their hands on it, and actually using the STP.
So with that in mind, I'd like to propose an "STP Usability Week"
where we all take some time to look at the issues that is currently
bugging us about STP and fix them.
I'm thinking the week of Dec 12th to be a good week since it's the
week before we start thinking about Christmas, and it would be good to
get this work done prior to our next milestone drop.
So, what's involved? Here's what I'm proposing:
* There are 78 open bugs in bugzilla against the STP, we should triage
them and organise a list of those that could be fixed during this
week. I can do a good lot of this in advance but will need help from
my colleagues in B2J and BPMN to organise their bugs. Some of these
bugs could be marked as "good for new comitters" so those of you
recently elected or interested in committing will be able to dip your
toes into the code!
* Web site updates, we'll create some bugs around that and do a
general clean up on the website. The more of us that get involved, the
better it will look.
* Build / Download page improvements. As we're currently having to
re-write our build system, are there changes we can make here? Are we
all happy with the what we publish for download? We need to make it as
easy as possible for STP adopters to be able to download and use our
stuff. Work is about to get underway on the development of our new
automated build system, so I'm hoping we will have the start of the
framework in place by Dec 12th for people to build on. It will be
*much* easier to understand!
* Finally, if you regularly work in the code and there have been small
problems annoying you as a developer, raise the bug, or better still
see if you can fix it.
For this week, we should suspend any active feature development and
concentrate on key usability improvements.
The aim is to get a list of bugs ready for the week in question. Then
if all our committers could begin by taking even just one bug and
making the change, we'd be making very good progress. I'm willing to
help out in any way that I can including co-ordination between the
people who are taking on bugs, and fixing bugs myself!
Thoughts? I'll talk about this at our meeting tomorrow, so if you're
interested drop in, or follow up on this email.
Regards,
Adrian.
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