Re: [gnome-love] GNOME Goal #4 proposal

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

Well, as I received no objection, I'm updating the new GNOME Goal. Let's 
 fix this bug!
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362604

Luis Menina a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Time has come for a new GNOME Goal. There's just one question: which one?
>
> We have some candidates:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/UpdateInfoFiles
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/SaveState
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon
>
> AppIcon is here because of this bug we introduced during this GNOME 
> Goal: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362604
>
> So, my favorite for the next GNOME Goal is...
> Well, you guessed, AppIcon! Why ? For 2 reasons:
>
> 1. It's still fairly incomplete (23 modules in the "todo" state)
> 2. The guidelines are incorrect, and if the GNOME Goals aim also at 
> becoming some sort of ISV guidelines, we should
> 3. It's just a crappy way of working to do things in a bad way and not 
> correct the resulting mess.
>
> So we need to fix a few things:
> - The current guidelines for this goal (I'll do it, thanks to Behdad bug 
> report)
> - See how the Goals numbering will work, as it seems instructions may 
> vary and an update of a goal is far from unusual. I think numbering the 
> goals is a bad idea because at some point people will lose track if 
> GNOME Goal #2 comes after Goal #5 just because #2 had bad instructions 
> and need to be reworked. Giving just a name to the goal should be enough 
> to identify it, and avoids the nubering problems.
>
> The other problem with numbering is that "wanabe" goals often have a 
> temporary number, which can conflit after with "official" goals. So I'll 
> get rid of them.
>
> As soon as all theses issues will be resolved, I'll post here to help 
> spreading the news.
>
> Feel free to comment (or tell me you plainly disagree with what I plan 
> to do, according you tell me why  :-))
> Cheers,
>
> Luis
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