Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 19:03 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > >>> It was posted to d-d-l, and Andreas blogged about it on Planet. I'm not >>> sure what else we can do. >>> >> Andreas blogged about it after the changes, on July 24, as "GNOME Art >> team" (which sound strange, I would expect this kind of change to be >> discussed and announced by usability team)). >> > > you, and others on this thread, make it look like everything was decided > in a vacuum. I can't discern how much of this is intentional (and thus > made by people actively trying to poison GNOME as a community), but it's > there and it's mightily *pissing me off*. > > both the change of the default schema value and the removal of the > Interface tab in the Appearance control center applet weren't decisions > made in a vacuum. > Still its seems to have caught a lot of people by surprise. All the people here that are not so much in favour of this change, seems to only have heard of it *after* the decission has been made. Its totally obvious that people in charge don't want to change it back. We should learn form this incident and make this more public. Write a proposal to DDL and not just inform about a decission. Thats all.
Stefan > the bugs were discussed in a public venue (with a slightly better > signal-to-noise ratio than d-d-l, if this thread should demonstrate the > SNR of d-d-l); the usability team was involved in the discussion; the > art team was involved in the discussion; the release team was involved > in the discussion; the maintainers of all interested modules were > involved in the discussion; the documentation team was notified (and > involved). > > it was announced on PGO, the most public venue we have, by one of the > parts involved. > > short of going door to door to every GNOME user, tell me: what should > have been done? or maybe was just a case of sending a personal email to > every packager, distro developer and maintainer of GNOME projects? and > how much time should have been allotted for a reply? more or less than > the 4 months that passed between the discussion and the 2.28 release? > > GNOME, like any other community effort, is made by those who show up. > > ciao, > Emmanuele. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
