Thanks, all, for contributing to this discussion. We are, indeed, at a 
crossroads and would very much like for all of us to address the issues raised 
here. (From my perspective, a big question is what's the proper role for a UX 
person in an open source project, but I know that that's just one facet of the 
whole thing.)
Is the regular meeting tomorrow/today (i.e. 6 March) the right time for this 
discussion, or should we postpone until we get 1.3 out the door? 

Judy

p.s. a few months ago, I started doing a little research on the role of UX in 
Open Source: http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/UX+in+Open+Source+Projects

On Mar 5, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Nils Hendrik Birnbaum wrote:

> Am 04.03.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Christopher Brooks:
> 
>> 
>> This has the potential to get very dangerous and messy.  Are there ways
>> we can mitigate it?  We have a code review process, though I don't know
>> that I've been added as a reviewer on anything done outside of my
>> institution in a *long time*, so perhaps this process is failing to
>> help build consensus...is a design review process necessary?
>> 
>> I see both (1) and (2) happening with respect to the episode service.
>> We have alot of features planned for 1.4, and most features seem to be
>> developed by individual institutions, so I imagine that we're going to
>> see alot more of (1) and (2).  But a product without a cohesive UX is
>> not good for adopters.
>> 
>> Maybe we can brainstorm this at an upcoming dev meeting?
> 
> It's a good idea to  brainstorm some rules in next Dev Meeting. When I read 
> the mail I had a third scenario in my mind: the institution develop their 
> feature in branches and every developer think his feature  is the most 
> important one that has to be placed most prominent. So if it rum worst, when 
> we merge  the feature into trunk, all features where linked from the same 
> place. in worst case the welcome  page ;-)
> 
> It is very important to have a process that helps us to define, where a 
> feature is placed and what style it has. 
> 
> Nils
> 
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