User:Astron/Whiteboard Template

Summary
This page describes and shows by example how to structure your idea in a Whiteboard page.


 * What is a Whiteboard? A Whiteboard is a special wiki page that describes an idea and that, along with a discussion on the [mailto:design@global.libreoffice.org design@global.libreoffice.org] mailing list, helps to formalize and develop design ideas and proposals before they are implemented.


 * How should I work with Whiteboards?
 * Every Whiteboard has an assigned owner who is ultimately responsible for it. The owner is usually the person who started the Whiteboard.
 * If you are not the owner of a certain Whiteboard, only add to the Proposals section of a Whiteboard when the status Call for Proposals is active. After the Call for Proposals has ended, no more proposals are accepted and a tentative design is developed. If there is any other change you would like to make, contact the owner of the Whiteboard first.
 * Do not use Whiteboards for discussion, for that purpose, use the [mailto:design@global.libreoffice.org design@global.libreoffice.org] mailing list. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list, use the page that you reach by clicking the Discussion link in the top left link bar (Talk:).

Relevant Bugs

 * List here links to reported issues (along with their number and description) that relate to the Whiteboard, for instance:

Terminology

 * Terminology: The entirety of technical or otherwise special terms that need to be clear to all readers of the Whiteboard in question.
 * Whiteboard: A wiki page for the purpose of developing a design idea into a full-blown specification.

Owner
You

Discussion

 * LibreOffice Design List

Personas

 * Persona: A persona is a fictional character whose life you want to improve with the proposed change.
 * Joe: Joe, as a member of the design team, wants to improve the usability of the Templates and Extensions repository. He has never created a Whiteboard before, so he does not know much about wiki markup. He needs an easy-to-fill-out template.
 * Michael: A member of the LibreOffice development team. He wants to find a design idea that he could work on, but doesn't want to read through every detail on a Whiteboard. He needs to be able to quickly browse through a Whiteboard.
 * Monica: A new member of the LibreOffice design team. She wants to add her own proposal to an exsiting Whiteboard and needs a place to post it to.

Tentative Design
This section is created after we've agreed on a single design based on the submitted proposals and are ironing out the details. It includes the spec and high-quality mockups.

Read mode
In this mode, the whiteboard can be read by anyone.

Edit mode
In this mode, the whiteboard can be edited in wiki markup by signed-in users.

Proposal by Monica
Here's the place for Monica's proposal.

Relevant Art

 * List here links to screenshots/descriptions of competitive approaches or proposals from people outside the design team
 * Gnome Whiteboards