On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:58 PM, David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk > wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Thursday, June 14, 2012 13:15:34 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: > >> You misread the Quality Team mail: we are asking for the LCD Weather > >> Station Applet to be fixed for 4.9 or removed. > > > > i misread nothing. the request for it to be removed is denied. > > > > if you consider for a moment what this would do to people's otherwise > working > > installations, not to mention what it would mean for future incentive to > fix > > it, the reason for this should become evident. > > > > > > p.s. i'm very happy that we have a more active Q/A team. i am not happy > with > > how it is sometimes handling issues. there was a commit reverted the > other day > > without checking with the original commiter nor the maintainer of the > applet > > or module which should never have been reverted. fortunately i was on > irc and > > watching commits that day. now we have a "no, remove it" statement which > does > > not fit the way we develop in plasma, which is: > > > > * as a team > > * with communication > > > > > > i'm sure the QA team can improve over time so that we can all work > together > > better. thanks ... > > > For communication between two teams to get better both teams need to > improve. > > Plasma does not communicate as well as you imply, speaking as a person > who is trying to get involved in Plasma and help fix things, there is > so much resistance. Reviews are slow, replies on maliing lists (such > as this one) can be very condescending instantly blaming an entire > team for a lack of communication and most ML threads seem to derail > into arguments. > > Have you discussed the weather LCD applet with the team before denying > the request. I've not seen anything? Either you haven't, and have just > decided on behalf of your entire team which isn't a good example of > communication, or there's a communication channel which doesn't > include me...which again isn't a good example of good inclusive > communication. > > The real reason this happened this sort of things happens is because > Plasma does not have an attitude of everyone doing reviews. Everyone > will just follow the example set by everyone else. It's the perfect > way of increasing communication between everyone so we all know what's > going on. Especially once we've entered such a beta phase. > > David Edmundson > > > -- > > Aaron J. Seigo > > _______________________________________________ > > Plasma-devel mailing list > > Plasma-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > Just a FYI, http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/ seems to be free and decent as well.
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