Chris McDonough wrote:
Without getting too deep into discussion of how a task like this gets started and what its goals should be, I am willing to loosely "review" a few products as requested and as time allows.
Great! How does one put in a request? :)
With a couple of other people, we should be able to at least build a list of desirable product features after comparing a few products to one another.
Agreed.
After that I suggest that we can revisit the topic of coding/UI/documentation standards armed with findings. Personally, I'd be happy with the goal of creating a (very short) "straw man" Product Style Guide, armed with which we could decide to proceed on more formal "standards" or punt.
I think getting the process started (initially I agree aiming for some short guidelines document) is most important. The core document can grow as required. I'd be willing to help writing/editing such a document, but I definitely can't do it without more expert help. Regards, Martijn