Re: [Banshee-List] Mockup for Banshee 2.0 toolbar.

[Buyongo Phiri <devicehandler gmail com>]

Great! Thanks for that info Gabriel, so any chances of putting
together a design team I think as a community we have the talent and a
genuine need, I for one would be happy to work towards such an effort
and I think it would help the project grow faster and maybe we take
the load off the maintainers a little bit...?

On 1/12/11, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com> wrote:
>> Is there seriously not s banshee design team?
>>
>> How is the project organised?
>
> We have a maintainer team of four core developers
> (http://banshee.fm/about/), at least one of whom must approve any code
> changes.
>
>> It is often common in open source to completely neglect visuals, design,
>> art
>> etc. In my opinion banshee is currently one of the more attractive gtk
>> applications, but if it does not have a design team (and other categoric
>> teams) then the right people might not be the ones making specific
>> decisions.
>
> We have long prided ourselves high standards for not just clean code
> but a clean, great UI/UX.  Our maintainer team is our design team,
> basically, though we of course welcome input (which many talented
> people have given us over the years).
>
> Once you have nailed down your suggestions/mockups, file each
> could-stand-alone idea as an enhancement bug
> (http://banshee.fm/contribute/file-bugs/) and a maintainer will review
> it;  please don't file one huge bug with dozens of changes/ideas in
> it.
>
> Having a design team separate from the maintainer team could work
> well, but it would have to be born out of a set of
> designer-contributors who have proven themselves to the maintainers.
>
> Thanks for your hard work!
>
> Gabriel
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