[odf-discuss] Three kinds of tests

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the list of skills needed. That'll help a lot. Comments below.

robert_weir at us.ibm.com wrote:
>     * A couple of people who know ODF well

You know ODF well. Is anyone else from the ODF TC thinking of joining 
the new TC?

>     * 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.

The Google rep, whoever that happens to be, is likely to be good at 
Python. I am ok with XSLT, David Eisenberg is better. I'm not great, but 
I get the impression that most programmers don't feel comfortable with 
XSLT because it's a functional language.

I'll start giving some thought as to how atomic tests could be turned 
into something that users can test easily. Producing one document per 
test is easy. The tricky part is saving the user from opening 200 files. 
I don't know how we'd do that. We can't just use an OOo macro, as that 
wouldn't work on anything but OOo.

>     * A technical writer/editor for the TC's formal output

We should ask Jean Weber to check her schedule. She is great, but she 
also has a lot of other things.

>     * Someone with good outreach skills... No sense in us spending
>       months on text styles if spreadsheet formulas are the things that
>       are causing the most problems.

Indeed. Very important. I'm not sure who to suggest for this. Marco 
seems interested.

>     * Someone foolish enough to volunteer to lead this all 

I think that'll probably end up being you. You're already leading the 
effort to get the ball rolling.

Cheers,
Daniel.