Re: Front page strategy and progress

["Jens W. Klein" <jens bluedynamics com>]

Am Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:13 +0100 schrieb Lucas Rocha:

> Hi,
> 
> 2009/6/12 Jens W. Klein <jens bluedynamics com>:
>> Am Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:33:23 +0100 schrieb Lucas Rocha: [..]
>>> The idea is to have the non-styled framework for the front page. In
>>> practice, this means having an ugly page with banner, main text, three
>>> columns showing the entries from different sources. As I said, I'm not
>>> sure we should have a "People" column on front page. For now, I think
>>> we can keep the current approach (see www.gnome.org) which is: column
>>> 1 has news, column 2 has events, column 3 has misc "stuff".
>> [..]
>>
>> I think we do it best the 'Lean' approach and decide the people column
>> very late. Implementation is some work (without styling it would take
>> 4-8 hours for me). I'd propose to do the implementation very generic in
>> an own package, so we can reuse the proposed Collage-Viewlet.
> 
> What do you mean with "Lean approach"? 

"Decide as late as possible" is one "rule" of Lean Software Developement 
principles. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development

> Reuse the proposed Collage-Viewlet where?

We plan to reuse existing code in a different context.

> Anyway, I agree we don't need to decide on all the details of the front
> page now. As I said, the important thing is to have the framework in
> place.

+1

regards Jens



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