Hi, While browsing the forums, I came across a thread[1] raising an interesting subject - that of design changes, in this particular case, a design change was suggested to the handset UX[2], and rejected, because (to quote): "Making this change would require additional implementation work and would move the Homeui out of scope of the design documentation as provided by Nokia."
This raises a few questions for me. While I don't want to pick on the person who handled this particular bug, as no doubt, this is down to policy, I think there are a few things that could do with clarifying. Firstly: where is the referenced design documentation? If there are specifications, then I think that they should ideally be somewhere public, so they can be seen, discussed, clarified, and kept up to date as necessary. Secondly: what is the process for changes to design? It seems a little odd that a bug can be marked WONTFIX because it requires design change in an open project. (It should also be noted: I completely agree that commercial partners to MeeGo are free to not implement such suggestions on their [paid] time, but this should not preclude volunteers - or equally, other partners - from stepping up and having a crack, so I fail to see why additional implementation could be a hurdle) 1: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=806 2: http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3692 -- Robin Burchell http://rburchell.com _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
