On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:33 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: >> > Hi Allan, >> > >> > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:50 +0000, Allan Day wrote: >> >> I've just pushed a minor change to the GNOME Shell theme [1]. This is >> >> a small visual change [2, 3], and it doesn't >> >> affect anything functionally. It does change the look of the dialogs >> >> very slightly though. It was suggested that I you a heads up since >> >> we're in UI freeze. >> > >> > What blocked you to contact the Documentation team and the release team >> > first to ask for a UI freeze exception, instead of just committing? >> >> If Allan hadn't sent this headsup, would you have noticed the change ? >> In other words, is there really such great value in ensuring that >> documentation screenshots are pixel-perfect ? I can see the point if >> things get actually rearranged, or strings changed, or new >> functionality added, but here we are talking about shifting some >> whitespace around - everybody who looks at the before and after >> screenshots will recognize them as the same dialog... > > I don't think anybody would have blocked this change. (I certainly > wouldn't have.) But I don't like the idea of qualifying our freeze > with "unless you don't think you need to". We entrust the release > team to make those decisions.
And yet there is also an understanding that minor cosmetic changes don't need a UI freeze exception. I recently pushed a patch that changed some font sizes by a point or two. I presume that's not something I need a UI freeze exception for, for example. If you think this change went too far, then fine - next time I'll go through the procedure. However, it seems a bit over the top to go through that for this type of change. Allan _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.