On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:42 PM, j...@jeffcroft.com <j...@jeffcroft.com> wrote: ... > One way I think design proposals/tickets need to be treated > differently than other stuff is that there shouldn't be this, "sure, > great idea, go build it and get back to us" attitude involved.
I agree with your general point, which I interpret to mean: ideas are useful, even without code, and designers specialize, often to the exclusion of coding. Unfortunately, unless the person filing the request/ticket makes it clear that their request isn't something they can personally fulfill, it's hard to tell the difference between a person being lazy (i.e. wishing for a pony) and a person asking for assistance (i.e. a designer asking for a smart if tag). It's an important distinction. At the same time, it is also important to recognize the difference between being ignored and being in a long, difficult to prioritize, line. ... > I think the Django community needs to better respect the fact that > just because someone can't SOLVE a problem themselves doesn't mean > they're not able to IDENTIFY one. I think "patches welcome" does presuppose that anyone with the proper time and attention could fill their own needs, and that's generally been a correct assumption. Open source is built on sharing code, and sometimes it's hard to judge whether an idea is good or not without seeing an implementation. I guess I'd just ask that when you feel coders are being unfair just call it when you see it. Start with the assumption that we mean well and maybe don't see where you're coming from, like Russ with the contest idea. :-) All that said, developers everywhere have some amount of not-invented-here syndrome, and they have ideas, too. Often, they'll work on their ideas rather than look for someone else's. Since we're all volunteer, it's not appropriate to tell people what they should or shouldn't work on. So I think designers proposing ideas (but not providing code) are inherently at a disadvantage. I imagine that there's enough overlap between designers who can code a bit and developers who can design a bit to get together and make progress. We just have to try it and see how it goes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
