Unless of course you have street creds then you can say whatever you want. On the other hand, I didn't see anything particularly wrong with this message (although I don't remember it on DDL). More importantly, I see that he wants to help by volunteering. That automatically makes him gold in my book.
That said, excellent suggestions best regards, sri On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:46 +0100, Claudio Saavedra wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:47 +0100, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > (snip) > > The Change Password dialog in About Me is, in my opinion, > > unsatisfactory. > > Any mail that starts saying something like that, will be probably > ignored, because it sounds too agressive. > > I would suggest you: > > - For each of the independient problems you see in the software, open an > independient bug in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org). Of > course, before doing so, check if exists discussion about them, and > join them (browsing mailing lists would help, too). > > - Try to avoid to say that existent software *is bad, ugly, or it > makes your little sister scream*, but to directly say > what could be improved, why, and how. Mockups and/or patches would > improve the probability of your opinion to be considered. > > - If you want to provide mockups, don't do it in .glade format, but > screenshots. Only provide the .glade files if you have a patch that > will actually need them. > > I hope you will find my suggestions useful and will find a more suitable > way to start your contributions to GNOME. Remember, everyone's help is > welcome, but being polite and doing it the right way is very important. > > Good luck with your propossals! > > Claudio > _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
