Re: On the Interaction with the design team

[Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

> can you please explain to me, in a short sentence, what do you want to
> achieve? not how, but precisely what.

Have a good way to get in touch with the design team/other core gnome
teams that is not real-time and be able to participate in discussions
about desktop-wide design topics.

> Dave, Johannes: do you want to participate in the design decisions?

For desktop-wide design decision, e.g. what is discussed as "Proposed
features" on d-d-l: yes.

> do you want some history and/or accountability?

History isn't really that much of interest to me as it is over anyway.
Accountability is only interesting if someone wants to tell me that he
is right on a design and many people disagree. There should be some
record available of why that design was choosen and why it *is* better.

> do you have *specific* issues related to you (sorry, no "the community
> might feel" or "there have been rumors" or "people can misunderstand")?

See the links in my other mail.

> do you want to manage expectations? is this some community management
> direction?

I don't understand that question, sorry.

> if we did a pass of sed and changed gnome-design team to gnome-utils
> maintainers, would you expect the gnome-utils maintainers to use
> a mailing list and document every decisions made in the project and
> involve everyone (and yes: it's a serious question)?

No! But for some central desktop design decisions it would be nice to
have at least some way to get involved that is not IRC. For many other
projects I can join the mailing list, follow it and comment on things.
But for example on gnome-shell-list I didn't have the impression that
developers are actually participating on the discussion on the mailing
list or use it for development but instead just use IRC (ok, and
bugzilla which isn't a good platform for discussions either).

Regards,
Johannes