On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:42:08PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > colin z robertson wrote: > > > I am now. Thanks, Calum, for letting me know about this. But what the > > hell's going on? What's wrong with the gnome-gui list? > > Well, all of what follows is just my personal and humble opinion... Thanks for responding to my ranting in a level-headed manner. > So, my take on the new list is that it's been set up to try and > eradicate some of the negative historical baggage that g-g-l has, > hopefully get everyone back on board who should be involved in writing > guidelines etc., and get things moving faster and in a more organised > fashion than they have been up until now. hmm. Well, to the untrained eye it does look rather like an insult. > > So why is there suddenly a new mailing list and a new UI Guidelines > > project? What was wrong with the old ones? > > See above :o) Summary: nothing was/is inherently wrong with them, I > think something just had to be done to get people motivated and > interested in it again. Whether or not new lists/websites/IRC channels > will help remains to be seen, I guess, but it seemed to be a fairly > popular course of action amongst the people at GUADEC who expressed an > interest. If you want my opinion, the way to motivate people and to shake off a negative image would be to actually do something useful. Creating a new mailing list is just window-dressing. And proposing UI Guidelines is easy -- I've seen it done several times before. colin _____________________________ ____ rtnl http://rational.cjb.net c z robertson ndirect co uk icq 13294163
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