On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:18, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mercredi 01 juin 2011, à 13:33 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : >> On 1 June 2011 12:57, Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Basically, mailing lists don't work for many kinds of productive >> > discussion. >> >> Agreed. In my recent discussions with the dudes in #gnome-design there >> was a flurry of messages, perhaps as many as 200 back-and-forth >> discussions per hour. In that same hour, we iterated about 20 >> screenshots and quite a few designers piled in with suggestions. >> >> You just can't get that kind of latency and interest level with a mailing >> list. > > One thing that could be improved with mails, though, is communication > about the design after the iterative process on IRC you describe. Many > people would love to have a summary of the rationale of the design. > > I'm aware this is sometimes (maybe even always) propagated to a wiki > page. But people still won't know about the wiki page if there's no > announcement about it.
Something that has worked well in Sugar has been to start discussion on the mailing list and then schedule a meeting on IRC. Afterwards minutes are sent back to the ml where discussion can continue and the feature champion adds mockups/etc to the wiki. Regards, Tomeu > (fwiw, I pretty much agree that defining a design on a mailing list > doesn't work well) > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > _______________________________________________ > 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
