Different measures? (Sun-provided specs vs community-specs or: what do we have a process and templat

Hi Tino, *,

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:00:00PM +0200, Tino Rachui - Sun
Germany - Development - Software Engineer wrote:
> 
> you just hit a general problem of the specification
process and its 
> output. The output of this process namely the
specifications which
> should serve as a working base for development,
testing, user experience 
>  and documentation are all too often in an
unsatisfactory shape.

Yes.

> The 
> main problems are inclompleteness, ambiguity,
inconsistency to name just 
> a few. To fix these problems a project has been setup
to address and fix 
> such problems in the future see "Improving the
Specification Workflow" 
> earlier in this newsgroup for details. As a first
outcome of this 
> project an improved specification template has been
introduced. Of 
> course this is not sufficient to fix all problems
already but its a 
> first step more steps will follow.

I know. That's exaclty the point why I wrote the rant.
Having a template
and guidelines won't help if these aren't used.

> Beside all the technical and process improvements what
is always needed 
> is motivation and understanding that specifications
when done properly 
> save us a lot of time. Lessons that we all including
the OpenOffice.org 
> community member who work at Sun have to learn.

Exaclty.

> As we all make mistakes the best we can do is to gather
early feedback 
> and keep learning.

I'm happy to see that people here agree with me.

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: Linkin Park - Figure.09

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