Re: [gnome-love] About Me - Change Password dialog suggestions

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Unless of course you have street creds then you can say whatever you
want.

On the other hand, I didn't see anything particularly wrong with this
message (although I don't remember it on DDL).  More importantly, I see
that he wants to help by volunteering.  That automatically makes him
gold in my book.

That said, excellent suggestions

best regards,
sri

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:46 +0100, Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:47 +0100, Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> (snip) 
> > The Change Password dialog in About Me is, in my opinion,
> > unsatisfactory.
>
> Any mail that starts saying something like that, will be probably
> ignored, because it sounds too agressive.
>
> I would suggest you:
>
> - For each of the independient problems you see in the software, open an
>   independient bug in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org). Of
>   course, before doing so, check if exists discussion about them, and
>   join them (browsing mailing lists would help, too).
>
> - Try to avoid to say that existent software *is bad, ugly, or it
>   makes your little sister scream*, but to directly say
>   what could be improved, why, and how. Mockups and/or patches would
>   improve the probability of your opinion to be considered.
>
> - If you want to provide mockups, don't do it in .glade format, but
>   screenshots. Only provide the .glade files if you have a patch that 
>   will actually need them.
>
> I hope you will find my suggestions useful and will find a more suitable
> way to start your contributions to GNOME. Remember, everyone's help is
> welcome, but being polite and doing it the right way is very important.
>
> Good luck with your propossals!
>
> Claudio