mercredi, octobre 17, 2007

New Lead for Mac OS X project

I think I did my time, and I'm glad to announce Shaun McDonald is the new Mac OS X project Lead.

Since a long time, Shaun does a great work in OpenOffice.org project, mainly for the Macport and QA project.

He is well appreciated, very diplomatic, and has brillant ideas. I trust him, and agree with his Vision of what should be the Mac OS X port.

I'm convinced Shaun will be a great Lead for the project.

I wish him all the best !!

dimanche, octobre 07, 2007

Mac port present at Apple Live Expo 2007 (Koln, Germany)

Mac OS X porting project is proud to announce it will represent OpenOffice.org project at Apple Live Expo 2007

Many thanks to Eric Hoch, Uwe Altmann, Jacqueline Rahemipour and Joerg Sievers who will receive the visitors at OpenOffice.org stand from 15th to 18th of November.

Other volunteers are expected. Please have a look at the Apple Live Expo wiki page for further informations

Skills expected / needed for the volunteers :

- a very good OpenOffice.org software knowledge (including Mac OS X versions, both Aqua and X11 )
- a good knowledge about Mac OS X environment

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at least 2 by task ...

Thought about improving Mac OS X porting project

.... what about to start working differently ?

Proposal:

- before to consider any task is started, at least 2 people must be identified as working on it. No problem if one is a very good developer, and the second a poor one: work together, and share the knowledge.

- document the task: ask questions, note carefully the progression in the ideas, questions and answers how helped, and document the design ( no need to document the code when the design is given ... )

Note: current specs need some rework. We are not working for the NASA ;-)


- they are no dumb questions, and often simple questions help to solve important issues


Work this way will

- avoid Bus Factor effect

- create synergy between people, and valorize everybody

- improve the efficiency of the work

- free the code: documentation always helps. And we are working for a Free Software, aren't we ?

Doing that (please propose if you have better ideas), I bet new devs will join the OpenOffice.org project .. and maybe the Mac porting project ;-)

Let's try ?

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