-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I will participate. You know, this email sounds very similar to one I got from mdz ;)
On 23/03/11 21:57, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Once you've read the details below, please respond with an > acknowledgement and let me know if you can participate. The expected > time investment is on the order of a couple of hours over the next > two weeks. > > Last November, the Technical Board recently began a new program to > respond to top voted topics on Ubuntu Brainstorm: > > http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/11/03/weathering-the-ubuntu-brainstorm/ > > with the first round of responses summarized in > > http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/12/10/ubuntu-brainstorm-top-10-for-december-2010/ > > Our goal is to improve our responsiveness to the questions, concerns > and suggestions we receive from the user community. Note that this > does NOT mean that we will commit to following the suggestions, but we > will evaluate and respond to them. By explaining what we will (or > won't) do and why, we will show that we are paying attention and > trying to make good decisions on behalf of our users. > > The way the program works is that the Technical Board identifies > people within the Ubuntu project who are knowledgeable in the specific > topics proposed in Brainstorm, and asks each of them to write a short > response to one topic. > > One of the most popular topics in brainstorm at present is about > improving the login manager to show date/time, possibly extra widgets, > and offering a guest session: > > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26482/ > > As you are a GNOME/gdm/lightdm domain expert, it would be great if you > could give a thorough analysis of the current status quo, discuss the > possibility of time/date/other widgets, and feasibility and issues of > a guest session, in particular with gdm and light-dm. > > Since you are well versed in the technology involved, we would > appreciate if you could spend a short time reading the Brainstorm > content about it and writing a few paragraphs. You don't need to have > all the answers, and I encourage you to ask for input from others who > might have a view on the issue. This can be in the form of a > detailled upstream bug report, a blog post, an email, or any other > suitable format. It shouldn't take more than an hour or two to > complete. > > Our goal is to have everything ready for publication by the 11th of > April. Can you confirm that you're willing and able to help with > this? > > You can formulate your response as you see fit, but make sure that the > tone is sympathetic. Many of the comments in Brainstorm take the form > of demands or complaints: just treat these as if they were questions, > and answer them politely. Try to listen to the *need* behind the > suggestion, not just the suggestion itself, and connect with your > audience by telling a story about it. > > Here are some example formulas which might be helpful to you: > > * "It sounds like the problem described here is X. We address that in Ubuntu > today by doing A, B and C. Maybe that's not working for everyone because > of Y. We could improve this by doing Z." > > * "I would love to see a new feature like that in Ubuntu. It's consistent > with the way other parts of Ubuntu work, and seems genuinely useful. > We're busy with some higher priority projects at the moment like X, but > if someone is interested in writing a patch for this, I will help them > get it into Ubuntu and upstream." > > * "This is a really hard problem without an easy solution. It's complex > because of X, Y and Z. It will take some time for this to be completely > solved, but here are a few projects we're working on which will make things > better, bit by bit." > > * "That's an easy fix. I've written a patch and uploaded it to Natty. It > will be in the 11.04 release!" > > * "That's a great idea, and we already thought of it! Here's the blueprint, > and here's how you can follow along as this gets implemented in Natty." > > * "I passed on your suggestion to the upstream developer of the software, and > we had a conversation about it. Here's what we decided." > > * "This seems like a genuine problem, but I'm not sure that's the right > solution, because of X and Y. I asked our usability expert Jill about > this, and here's what she suggested." > > * "I didn't understand what the problem was here, so I had a conversation on > IRC with Jamie, who submitted this topic to Brainstorm to understand better. > Here's how it went: > > [...] > > In the end, we both decided that the best course of action is X." > > If you have any further questions about what is expected here, please > let me know. > > Thank you in advance! > > Martin Pitt > p. p. 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