Re: [Usability]List policy, usability leadership, mission statement [Was: "widget"]

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

On 31 Jul 2002 Jeff Waugh wrote: 

> It's disappointing that usability@ and the usability team is suffering from
> the same woes that the hitsquad did:
> 
>   - Clear, transparent leadership
>   
>   - Usability team mission statement
>   
>   - Lack of list policy and standards for behaviour, etc.
> 
> Until those are resolved, this list can be pretty much relegated to a high
> quality entropy source.
> 

Well, if the list were just a high quality entropy source, I wouldn't be so 
worried. The fact that a discussion point can make it from the list to bugzilla, 
while the discussion is still in train, and while there is still a large degree 
of uncertainty around the need for the discussion point, shows that there is 
potential for a negative impact on the GNOME UI design. There does need to be 
some sort of regulated output from the usability alias.

Pat