Understood. I'll be leaving the list now. Thanks for the really great work. matthew
Gregory Pittman wrote: > Figaro wrote: >> Hello, all. >> Please allow me to step in here as I was the person who forwarded this >> onto the active Scribus stage (as it were). >> Please be appreciative that there are many many reasons that "silos" may >> be an operational exigency, as I think you mean to imply you understand. >> >> There are also self imposed "silos" that we all face due to the need to >> "get on with the job", especially if earning an income. >> And, of course the intention is to gradually go back to learn all the >> intricate details of the softwares. But, I ask you and me how many of us >> actually follow through beyond the cursory "need to USE now plus a >> little 'cuz I messed up" level? >> > I think I understand what you're saying. At some point, we have to > accept that the users' needs do not always have to be met, just as > commercial ventures cannot always meet the desires/needs of the > customer. We have heard from printers who constantly face customers who > want to make last-minute changes after a job has been already set up -- > at some point they have to say no. > > With Scribus development itself, there are periodic feature freezes and > string freezes as a new version is approaching completion -- it just has > to be that way. > > So layout people, after having put in a tremendous amount of work, may > have to say to editors that they cannot simply upload a whole new > version of the text, you will have to trim it down to the changes, and > these better be limited and essential. This is the practicality of > working as a team. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080206/6c3c28e6/attachment-0001.pgp
