Hi, Congratulations and thanks for organizers of the Sprint and thanks to attendees - _you_ are Calligra! Because Calligra project is so ambitious plans we covered only some of topics and would need extra week or more.
One thing not covered is web site. It is sad to admit but calligra-suite.org quickly become "calligra-devel.org" in my eyes. News like [1] with embedded shell commands easily contradict the idea of end-user-oriented product. This doesn't mean I am against power-user and developer news on the web site but it definitely fits best to community.kde.org or Developer or Contribute section of calligra-suite.org. This note of criticism is needed as much as previous criticism of kde.org raised by Dion Moult, getkde.org / kde-www-war author: Users run away from our web site screaming. More than once, the answer I am getting from the community is that _currently_ Calligra is more about engine and not applications. It makes sense and I do contribute to that vision (with real code too) but then why not to make Calligra Engine(s) first-class message replacing calligra-is-suite-of-apps message? Doing it too simply would however in some way hurt apps such as Krita or Kexi, apps that do intend to be more apps than shells around various engines. But these two apps already have user-oriented web sites (and I think this it not coincidence - they have users). So there is no threat to them but the dream is to have suite with somewhat common vision. A constructive note: we may need proper sections on the web page leading to clear separation of content, per audience. Actually everything is mixed up as on a personal blog. This situation is clearly very similar to what we had before renaming KOffice. Another note: the web usability is suboptimal - current top news refers to so important milestone beta 3 but at http://www.calligra-suite.org/ there is no mention it was released (and what is the most recent test version) because the news is hidden in archives. Instead, news from april is on the top. It is not up to Cyrille, maintainer, to take care of this. His time is too valuable. There is clearly something wrong with the web site, so wrong that even set of static html generated by a script (think excellent http://webodf.org) would save me writing this post. [1] http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/announcements/beta-3-packaging-updates/ -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
