Re: On the Interaction with the design team

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:18, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 juin 2011, à 13:33 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit :
>> On 1 June 2011 12:57, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
>> > Basically, mailing lists don't work for many kinds of productive discussion.
>>
>> Agreed. In my recent discussions with the dudes in #gnome-design there
>> was a flurry of messages, perhaps as many as 200 back-and-forth
>> discussions per hour. In that same hour, we iterated about 20
>> screenshots and quite a few designers piled in with suggestions.
>>
>> You just can't get that kind of latency and interest level with a mailing list.
>
> One thing that could be improved with mails, though, is communication
> about the design after the iterative process on IRC you describe. Many
> people would love to have a summary of the rationale of the design.
>
> I'm aware this is sometimes (maybe even always) propagated to a wiki
> page. But people still won't know about the wiki page if there's no
> announcement about it.

Something that has worked well in Sugar has been to start discussion
on the mailing list and then schedule a meeting on IRC. Afterwards
minutes are sent back to the ml where discussion can continue and the
feature champion adds mockups/etc to the wiki.

Regards,

Tomeu

> (fwiw, I pretty much agree that defining a design on a mailing list
> doesn't work well)
>
> Vincent
>
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