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On Apr 25, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Jane Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm saying this flat out: this announcement is coming with no
notice. There's a post on the dev blog now about an opportunity for
community designers to take a stab at making the header/nav of the
admin look a little more polished. The idea only came up last night,
and with the 2.8 deadline looming, it would have made more sense to
just have Matt Thomas (who did the visual styling of 2.7) kick out a
revised comp, but we thought it would be cool to let the community
submit design suggestions in visual form. We posted a PSD of Matt's,
and anyone who would like to propose an approach is welcome to
submit a design.
Since it's a small project, we think this is reasonable. Matt Thomas
is working on a comp, so if no one wants to jump in and take on the
challenge, that's okay. Like I said, the idea just came up... we
didn't think we'd have time for this kind of thing until 2.9. In
2.9, there will be some screen design opportunities around the media
upload process, and those larger design projects will be announced a
week in advance, and have reasonable turnaround times for
deliverables. But not this time! We're trying to squeeze this in
under the wire. All details are in the post: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-whos-in-an-idea-in-three-acts/
Slightly but not really off topic: I do want to say that I paid
close attention to the thread about the has-patch marathon and the
two-days' notice not being enough. I started to write a lengthy
response, but decided it would be better to turn that energy toward
making change, rather than responding point by point to the
complaint. I'm going to start working on figuring out how to improve
communication between core devs/contributing devs/Automattic, which
will include things like the Ideas forum, the lists, the dev
channel, support forums, community blogs, etc. I'm gathering my
thoughts right now and trying to get 2.8 out of the way, but in the
very near future I'll start soliciting feedback around this issue,
and even more importantly, soliciting SUGGESTIONS. Complaints may
get the issue noticed, but only by working together for an improved
system can we solve these issues.
Thanks!
Jane
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