Re: Prioritiy for UI issues?

[Dave Fallon <davef tetsubo com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:32:41PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> I understand why some members of the usability team want to dictate
> importance. But I think I've proved over the past ten months that it is
> much better for maintainers to trust your judgement and work with them.
> Usability in GNOME will not succeed in the long run unless that is the
> approach usability chooses to take.

And to put it another way, if you can't convince a maintainer your usability bug is good to fix, maybe it isn't all that good to fix. :) The maintainers need/should trust the usability team about usability bugs, but that trust needs to be built, it doesn't come for free. The HIG is a step in the right direction, as it's easier to explain that way, but it might be worth including more of the argument and reason behind the HIG decisions either in the HIG, or in a companion document, so there's a public way for the maintainers to understand where the usabilty folks are coming from.

dave