Re: [Usability]Re: UI Review Summary - week 2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:46:35PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote: 
> I can't help but think that the current system doesn't scale terribly
> well. Shouldn't it be up to the software authors themselves to read the
> HIG and make their software compliant? Why does it have to be a group of
> people in IRC who do it?

There's a lot of benefit to a fresh pair of eyes in this area, I
think. Often the UI review team comes up with a lot of stuff I just
haven't thought of, for stuff I wrote.

> What is simply to stop the release team from saying "we ship 2.2 when
> the following programs have been UI reviewed:" and then if the authors
> don't or can't review their own apps the dedicated review team takes up
> the slack at the end. As it is, assigning deadlines in this way seems
> counterproductive...

Remember, releases are time-based, not feature-based. We won't push
out deadlines for missing UI review - the point of the deadlines is
that reviews not done by then won't get done for this release.

Havoc