On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Angelo Gladding <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> I don't understand why it's still being done privately. I mostly don't >>> understand why so much time has been spent. The design should just be >>> done already. The documentation is like 80% of webpy.org and its in an >>> even sorrier state than the design. I've now brought that up in each >>> mail and keep receiving rehashed mockups sans any input on, well, >>> anything else that constitutes a quality, usable website. This site >>> needs to operate optimally for the developer scavenging for docs at >>> 2AM the night before a project /needs/ to be done. The entire redesign >>> so far has addressed the "first impression" and nothing else. >> >> Please stop flame wars. I don't see how somebody working on a layout >> in private is an issue. It is good to show progress to people, but I >> don't see anything wrong anywhere. > > Now that the design has matured over a six month period, where does > the search box go? Back to the drawing board? > >> Yes, documentation is not in a good state. Feel free to improve it. > > The problem is that all of these aspects are interrelated. A better > user system might be a catalyst for more organized documentation. The > contents of the navigation bar might put beneficial constraints on > where our efforts are focused. I've mentioned that I've begun > reprocessing the docs under different but similar names (i.e. > /installation instead of /install) in order to seamlessly transition > to a new structure. However, this will all be in vein if said > structure has no chance of being adopted by the default site template. > >> Well, that is not an approved design. That was his proposal. >> Angelo, please stop discouraging people doing constructive work. >> >> Yes, there are things that you didn't like in that design. Please >> suggest the modifications instead of criticizing. > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Branko Vukelic <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although I will probably inevitably end up sounding like a fascist, I >> don't think a public vote should be the principal decision-making >> mechanism in projects like this. It's better that everyone simply >> takes a look at the work-in-progress stuff and contribute their ideas. > > It's hard to be cordial when my suggestions of essentially keeping > nothing and changing everything are being sent to an entrenched artist > who is commandeering the project under a blurry portrayal of having > been greenlighted by you. But I tried! I wrapped up my proposal and > itemized the changes /that could obviously be made under any design > scheme/.
Then why do you keep saying things like we are pitted one against the other (when it was obvious from the beginning that was not the case). -- Branko Vukelić http://foxbunny.tumblr.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16889...@n04/ http://www.twitter.com/foxbunny http://github.com/foxbunny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en.
