On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems odd - to put it kindly - to claim "virtually all"[1] >> development of the gnome3 UI occurring on an unlogged IRC channel can >> be considered "in the open"[1]. > > Yes, it's a shame we don't have logging. Not something that is > restricted to GNOME design I might add - we don't have it on any GNOME > channels.
Good to note, though I don't want anyone to think I was implying a conspiracy of some kind to keep the ui changes under wraps. Just that IRC isn't a good place for devel, and log-less IRC even less so. >> Not sure what can be done about this. Perhaps those who have spent >> time idling in the channel could help piece together a history of the >> development discussion? Perhaps a page could be added to the wiki to >> help recreate lost discsussions, and those with logs could help >> fill-in-the-blanks, so to speak. > > We do try and document as much as we can. The GNOME Shell design page > [1] contains quite a thorough account, and the GNOME Shell design > whiteboards are quite extensive [2]. There are also a few pages relating > to system settings stuff too [3, 4]. I'll go through those, thanks for explicit links. > If there are any specific decisions or issues that you would like to > explore, feel free to contact me off-list. I'll do my best to point you > in the right direction. Nothing specific. I've been ungenerous - to put it kindly - in my assessment of certain design decisions (ie., lid-close) and wanted to try and learn more about what kinds of arguments / discussions occurred before coming to the decisions. >> Going forward, can a bot be setup to record discussions here? > > Good idea. I'm sure it'll have been discussed before... Redhat has the meetbot, perhaps it could be tasked to a few key gnome irc channel's? Key to be determined by informed folk etc. _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
