On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Ojemeh Peace Ozioma wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here is the log for today's meeting: > [1]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Meetings/2018-09-15
Thanks. Sorry, I couldn't make it. I was travelling and didn't realise that the meeting was on that date. Now I see you said the second Friday of the month. You might mention the date in your next announcement. I've reviewed the log, and have some comments; The horse is in front of the cart; Perrie and Jaskirat speak as if the design team is for creating new features or improving existing features. That's not how we have worked at Sugar Labs. Features are proposed more generally, and the design team is for coordinating the developers when developers ask for coordination. We have a weekly development team meeting each week on #sugar-meeting, and can handle feature discussions there already. Please do not restrict new features to this new design team. New features are to come from developers, learners, teachers, and integrators. Use the Issues in GitHub. Use the Features pages in the Wiki. Only if coordination is needed should a design team be needed. Add the [DESIGN] tag to subject line on mailing list. Walter's changes to the toolbars don't need much coordination yet; next steps are to prepare a mock-up, discuss on mailing list, work out what software components must change, and then begin the change. Jaskirat wants the icons to match Microsoft Windows; again this doesn't need much coordination yet; please prepare a mock-up, discuss on mailing list, add an icon theme choice to My Settings, and add the new theme to Sugar Artwork component. Perrie wants to fix the font sizes and widget styles for large displays. This is a bug not a feature. Use the Issues in GitHub. Please make the changes to gtk-widgets.css files, test, and create a new pull request in GitHub for Sugar Artwork component. Above all, don't expect other people to develop your feature for you; you will likely have to do it yourself. Only exceptional features with much interest will have volunteers joining in to develop. Hiding an unpopular and not agreed feature inside GSoC project or GCI task is no substitute for transparency, and will often not be merged. The later discussion about the Sugar Labs logo shouldn't be part of the design team; it's not a developer issue, and doesn't need developer coordination. Please use the marketing team, or if they don't respond, use the iaep and sugar-devel mailing lists to get wide community input. Confining the discussion to this design team will bring up complaints about not consulting widely enough. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep