On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Seif Lotfy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 18:21 +0200, Florian Max wrote: > > > >> Which brings us to the matter of openness: the results of everything > >> the design team does ends up on the GNOME wiki under > >> live.gnome.org/Design. > > > > I think people are more concerned about being able to have input > > on the process, not on seeing the results published on the wiki. > > I'm on #gnome-design all day. I often skim the backlog. I don't > > really see the discussion that leads to the results. Sometimes > > I see mention of meetings. I don't know where those meetings > > happen. > > Exactly. Non-designers want to be part of the process. Reasons behind > decisions need to be written somewhere, but that is not enough. > > If a new a developer comes and asks for reasons behind a decisions, I > doubt that the designers, who are already as busy as it gets, can take > time to explain each one who comes over what problem is being solved > via the design and how. > So having design decisions and their reasoning documented would help. > But also as designers it is their responsibility to communicate with > those who still doubt these decisions, starting with those willing to > implement or help out directly. Because if they can explain to those > nearest to them, those can then jump in to help others. > > No, you get volunteer community managers to communicate those design decisions. A community manager should be able to get a general feel of what design decisions are having issues with the community. At some point maybe sucha person can opt for a conversation with specific individuals but otherwise you know there are a lot of unreasonable people out here and the internet makes them more unreasonable than they would be usually.
Luckily for us, we do have a number of people who couldu do that kind of community management, Olav for one has already been doing some of it. I do it more externally. Big projects like Mozilla have a community managers. It's definitely something this project should do more of. sri
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