Re: Proposal for First Draft of GNOME Style Guide 1.1

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Bowie Poag <bjp@primenet.com> wrote:
> A) Chill out, Tom. :)

I'm cool and trying to get some work done. but I and several others have
justified criticism on the organization of this effort. I think those who
consider themselves the maintainers, and thus in a position of authority AND
responsibility should listen to these arguments instead of ridiculing them and
generally displaying an "I don't care" attitude.

I'll rant one more time and then delete any flaimbait mails on sight, ok?

I came to this list from gnome-list after I had posted some ideas about how
the default panel config should be there. it was said this list was meant to
 hold  the ui discussions, but it had been inactive for a while.

iow, I came  here with an interest and a willingness to work on the ui part
of gnome. I also came here with the information that this would be the place
where that topic would be discussed.

from this, you can easily  deduct the two things I am increasingly unhappy
with. #1 is that the actual style guide  has not been disclosed. what can I
discuss if there's no basis for discussion?
#2 is that suddenly, not the list is the place of style guide posting and
discussion, but some random irc conference.

and the new #3 is that my complaints and some of my contributions to the
discussion are not taken seriously. I don't steal my time, you know? I don't
talk to screen designers and dig through ui resources to enlarge my ego
(there are much better ways to do that). in the very least I expect to be
taken seriously in return. this is called "social skills" and is probably
much more important for a team-leader, maintainer, project leader, whatever,
than any and all technical skills.

ALL these things are project and team management issues, see that? we can
have a discourse on any technical aspects of the style guide at any time,
that's what I'm here for. I'm not going to waste everyone's time with
questions like how funny one can abbreviate menu names any longer.


now go and hold that conference, and DO post a summary.


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