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2nd Calligra Sprint
Eating Our Own Dog Food
Jarosław Staniek, November 2011
Eat Why?- Sends clear message: this software is useful
- Testing by fellow contributors is valuable
- Generates usage scenarios and then requirements
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Eat Why? cont'd
- Brings cross-app integration ideas
- Helps to avoid feature duplication
- If right tool picked, development process helps to update requirements
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Eat Why?contd
- Team building!
- Easier to understand and acknowledge differences between apps
- Identify competences among contributors
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Use Where?(3 areas)
1. Reusing features of one app in other apps (instead of reinventing)
→ Target: Calligra developers/designers
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Use Where? contd
2. Using our apps in the development process
→ Target:Calligra contributors
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Use Where? contd
3. Using our apps elsewhere, in activities not related to Calligra
→ Target: Calligra contributors and advocates
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Eat What?Use Calligra Tables for tabular data
→ Status: used for some ods files→ Action point: identify problems like usability/performance
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Eat What? contd
Use Calligra Plan for project management
→ Status: some contributors use it → Action point: collect best practices
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Eat What? contd
Use Kexi for various data needs→ Already good for storing and simple queries→ Not yet good for analyzing data
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How to use Kexi?→ Only simple relational features
→ Status: not used, let's start!
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(discussed with Inge)
Idea: Kexi as Bugzilla client → Use Bugzilla’s web services for this→ Separate plugin?→ Online/offline operations with sync.
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Idea: Kexi as Bugzilla client contd
→ Use Kexi to maintain data for automatic changelogs(server db preferred)
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How to use Kexi? contd
Action point:
Provide use cases, e.g. CSV import/export
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How to use Kexi? contd
Action point: Provide server for shared db→ Some of public access→ Some only for contributors
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Eat How?
Provide “Best practices for own dog food consumers”
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Best practicesKeep separate setup of stable Calligra apps
→ stable for using
→ unstable for development
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Best practices contd
Developers becomes users too
→ This leads to more valuable use cases
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Thank You
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