On Apr 25, 2012 8:43 AM, "Allan Day" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:55 AM, John Stowers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> So there are lots of ways that we can do design better as a community, > >> and contributors on this list can all play a part in helping to make > >> us to be even more successful in this regard. It will take actions as > >> well as words to move forward, of course - if you want to help, or > >> have your own ideas, just get in touch. > > > > Many of your suggestions seem designed to address or avoid conflict, or > > to convey design team decisions in a better manner. This is not the > > source of my confusion nor my uncertainty in how to interact with the > > design team. > > > > In order to piece together the rationale or even the process for design > > team decisions I currently browse commit logs on the gnome-design github > > repo, and look at comments made when changing live.gnome.org pages. Some > > of you tweet stuff, others scatter it on google+. You suggest even using > > $some_new_webapp to better collaborate on designs. > > > > While I cannot see the discussion and the evolution of design team > > thought (even if I have the time to piece together all these sources of > > information) all I see is a decision by decree when a live.gnome.org > > page is created which describes the final design. > > > > My suggestion is thus the same as it was the last time this thread was > > raised - if the design team does not want to archive discussions on a > > mailing list, may they please allow IRC logging on the gnome-design > > channel. > > I'm not sure how useful logging the channel will be (lots of noise, > etc), but I'd be happy to give it a go. The main thing is that we > shouldn't stop there. IRC logs aren't going to fix the whole gamut of > challenges that we face in relation to community design. > > > You can even be proactive and send email updates to ddl or > > something.
What about a mailing list of which only foundation members can subscribe to? I made this suggestion earlier. Sri > > I've lapsed in my design update blog posts, but I've got a new one in > the works. You think emails would be better than blogging? >u > > Of course if the canonical way to interact with the design is to show up > > on IRC at a specific hour then, IMO, you will lose contributors. I can > > hack any time of night when I have the motivation and the free time. But > > if I want to understand why the design team did something I have to... > > trust them? > > > > Trust them, or ask them, or a combination of the two. (Trust comes > best once you gain experience of working with people, of course.) > > Allan > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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