2010/12/10 Hoyt Duff <[email protected]>: > > That incomplete transfer of information is a flaw in the logo process > which led to the indictment of the product.as you see in the comments > because, while they want to participate in the discussion, they did > not become fully informed, were not able to understand the process and > felt excluded as a consequence.
Well, if this is your point of view, then here is mine: >From whatever perspective and whatever step-in point in time you may see it: 1. There was no "incomplete transfer of information". 2. Nobody was excluded or "not fully informed" unless he missed all the numerous information on all possible Mageia related places all over the net. But in this case he should have missed the complete issue at all. Wherever you looked at any time during the whole proposal stage you met a pointer to the guidelines - except if you never looked at the blog article about the logo process, never looked into the mailing list discussions, but only read about the logo issue on one single tweet or on a poorly edited 3rd-party website where they reported about the logo and gave the upload directions but not the link to the guidelines. I must admit that I saw such a website myself (in German). We will never ever be able to avoid such cases, short of answering every single proposition with a detailed mail, still we can't be sure that the person in question will read that mail. About all those comments (BTW: there are more comments in favor of the decision) - does it occur to you that those who are complaining only started to care about the whole thing after the show? IMHO these complaints are the usual wave of complaints which will wash the beach after each and every decision, no matter how transparent or democratic the decision finding process was. One nice example: on our website (mandrivauser.de) we had a pointer to a competition (writing an article for our magazine), the pointer was printed in fat red letters and was placed in the header of the forum page (the most visited part of the whole website) for more than 6 weeks. After the deadline was over and we announced the results there were people who complained, they would have participated if they only knew... What I want to say: we do believe that people who are interested in our project are able to read more than one tweet before they design, upload and never look back. If you still insist, may be next occasion you should be appointed to organize the whole thing and do all that what you think has been missed this time. This would have 2 benefits: first you will see how much extra work you are proposing and second you will see that there will not be one single complaint less than this time. -- wobo
