On Friday, June 22, 2012 04:45:34 Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Am 22.06.2012 um 04:00 schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: > > Sorry, this wasn't the case. I was complaining about the lack of change > > on debian-devel, got told to do it, prepared the changes, asked the > > current maintainers, pushed the changes and notifed everyone. > > Well, thanks for notifying. A lot of people here were waiting for a vote. > Just read this list. I know it's kind of a developer thing to want things > get done and I respect that. > > But the people here (including me) are mostly non-developers, they were > doing their artwork and some put a lot of time into it. I would have > expected that this work would be judged in a fair manner, with a > discussion and pros and cons and finally a vote. And not to be notified in > a hurry by somebody who just was tired of waiting. > > > If this is not up to your standard, please hold a vote, revert my > > patches, update the package and upload it. > > Yes, I would like to do that. > > I suggest to vote on this list. > > I suggest a timeframe of five days. So voting ends Tuesday, 26th of June, > midnight. > > I suggest that everybody who is interested how Debian 7 will look like, can > participate in that vote. So that means the poll is open for users. > > I suggest everybody has one vote and writes the name of the favored > proposal into the subject line of his mail.
if everyone gets to name one theme, isn't there the danger of everyone naming themselves and every theme getting 1 vote? how about everyone submitting an ordered ranking of themes or something? (just a spontaneous idea) anyway... i mostly want to say i agree with you and i share your frustration. you obviously were one of the most active contributors to this process. i think there is really a bit of a developer vs non-developer communication failure going on here. > > I suggest to make this poll immediately known to all user-communities and > blogs. > > > I don't particularly want this role, I just want a new default and > > decided to *help*. > > We all want a new default. And everybody here tried to help. > > >> because we have *9* days before freeze. That's *9* days to do all > >> major changes. > >> > >> That means: > >> > >> write a theme for KDM, Ksplash, GDM, Plymouth, Splashy, GRUB, Migrate > >> everyone else (filed two bugs earler against SLiM & ldm-themes) off > >> spacefun, test it, and upload it. > > This is not so much work. I have helped the last time to do it. I am > volunteering to do it now. > > If by this every Debian user gets to vote over the picture they will look > at the next two years, that's OK with me. > > And even if we are voting for "Joy" (which would be a reasonable choice > BTW) it would be a vote by the community and not by one single person. > > best wishes > Ulrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
