About Fedora Usability

[Damien Durand]

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Well after a good reflection, the documentation and website point are
uncoherent, I think it's too hard and limited this project to fedora
sofwares is better.

The answers about my strategy :

- *"Who* the new project would serve and who will lead the project" : The
futur project is devote to simplify the life of Fedora users about the
fedora use and I think I'll lead this project.

- *"What* the goals and scope of the new project would be" : Provide
coherence, accessibility and intuivity to all people using Fedora Core.

- *"When* the project can be considered a success" : I don't know really, I
haven't an idea for that and I think the answer willl be false.

- "*Where* the project will lead and where it will fit into the Fedora
Project" : The project will return fedora simpler and coherent and will
allow a better feedback with the user.

*- "Why* the idea warrants the creation of a new project within the Fedora
Project" : Because there's a lot of hard work and I don't disturb  any other
Fedora project.

**

2006/8/11, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
>
> > How?
> >
> > - Track the uncoherent things in the Fedora softwares, read the Fedora
> > contents about the documentation and websites. Once a thing is
> > detected, this one is reported to the Usability Schedule and is fixed
> > by a patch. Next this patch is send to the maintainer.
> >
> > The Usability project/sigs allows to us to study the user actions and
> > understand how the users use the Fedora distribution and different
> > resources. Correct me If I'm wrong but Fedora is not only a
> > distribution for sysadmins and developers. Fedora must be usable by
> > everyone! So it's my opinion and people who don't agree with this will
> > not have a beer to the next fudcon ;-)
> >
> > I'll make a rapport about this project/sigs every weeks and send it to
> > Thomas Chung to show the advancements.
> >
> > Fedora must be simple and for everyone and we make an effort whit
> > that.
> >
> > Good day to all and thanks in advance,
>
> Damien,
>
> I think the idea for a Usability SIG is a good one.  (Please refer to
> the initiative without the "Project" name for now, since Projects have
> to be approved.)  To get better community traction, you should flesh out
> this idea a little more.  If you look at the draft wiki page:
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects
>
> ...you'll see some pointers for how to define your action plan,
> including a list of requirements, a formation/governing strategy, and
> how you think the SIG's progress is to be measured.  I think your best
> area of concentration may be keeping channels open and active with
> multiple upstream developers for applications that need improvement.
> The statements that Nicolas made about users having to do too much
> upstream went right to the point.  Use that to guide your action plan.
> Be specific.
>
> But I still see a lot of grey area and possible duplication of effort in
> some of the goals you state:
>
> > - Help the webmaster team to provide a coherent comprehensive website
>
> How exactly does this goal fall *outside* the current Fedora Websites
> Project?  What will Usability provide that Websites doesn't or can't?
> Fedora in this case is the originator and upstream, so what *exactly*
> will Usability do besides file bugs with Websites and track their
> progress?  Neither of those functions warrants its own subproject IMHO.
>
> > - Help the documentation team to provide a coherent and comprehensive
> > documentation
>
> The same question goes for this.  What will Usability SIG provide that
> can't be done through participating in the existing Documentation
> Project?
>
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