First off, I'm generally on board with everything you've said here. Only three points/questions I'd like to make:
1. I wouldn't say "Wilson is out of the picture" without talking to him first. I know he's a busy man and my impression is that he doesn't have time for this right now, but I'm certainly not going to speak for him on that matter. Hopefully he'll speak up and let us know (I do know he's been following this discussion, at least casually). I totally agree that what we're really talking about now is find his successor, but let's not start doing so without confirming with him that he doesn't still want this position -- in my opinion, he should have first dibs on it if he wants it. 2. Is there value in having more than one "design czar?" As in, would it be better to have a small team handling this rather than one person? I'm not sure I know the answer, but I do worry that any one person sets us up for the situation we're in with Wilson -- where someone is the "leader", but doesn't really have the time or resources to do that job (either temporarily or permanently). I'm not sure what my own opinion is one this one, yet, but I thought I'd rase the question. Clearly we don't need a ton of people, but maybe a few? 3. On the topic of Wilson: let's be clear that none of this is his fault. He did a spectacular job on the admin interface, and never formally received a "design czar" like position in the community that I know of. He's busy like many of us, and he hasn't let us down at all, in my opinion. Jeff On Feb 6, 2:49 pm, Idan Gazit <i...@pixane.com> wrote: > A small addendum: > > One way to think about the design czar is someone representing > designers' needs in Django proper. Arguably, we already had somebody > in this role -- Wilson -- and now we have a fantastic template > language and an admin which is still ahead of its time in many ways. > We wouldn't have had either without a talented designer at the table. > > It sounds like Wilson is out of the picture, and thus vacated his de > facto role as design czar. It might make more sense to think of this > in terms of finding Wilson's successor than about starting something > new. > > -I -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
