Re: [HIG] Getting recommendations back to developers

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 4:44 PM +0100 8/15/01, Calum Benson wrote:
> I know this is a wider-than-HIG issue, but maybe it's a good place to
> start.  How do we intend to get usability suggestions (such as fixes to
> correct breaches of our guidelines) back to app maintainers?  Havoc's
> RFP process was suggested as one possibility, and that may be valid for
> larger changes. 
>
> However, the documentation team here have just mentioned to me that they
> often come across inconsistent terminology and suchlike in apps that
> needs fixing, and the RFP process sounds like it would be overkill for
> those sorts of things.  Equally, if they go into bugzilla as "usability"
> bugs, they could be all-too-easily ignored without the unspoken menace
> of the GNOME Usability Team behind them  :o)

My gut instinct is that bugzilla really is the right way to handle 
these kinds of issues.  There is definitely a process through which 
we need to go of educating developers as to _why_ usability is 
important and why they shouldn't simply ignore these kinds of bugs; I 
think that integrating usability bugs into the normal bug-tracking 
for the applications will be an important part of that, though.

Adam
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