On 05/10/12 12:11, Matthew East wrote:
On 5 October 2012 11:54, John Lea wrote:
Forwarding to ubuntu-release,ubuntu-doc,and ubuntu-translators at Iain
Lane's suggestion.
Original Message
Subject: Application of UIFEs
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:28:19 +0100
From: John Lea
To: product-strat...@lists.canonical.com
CC: Sebastien Bacher , Didier Roche
, Jason Warner ,
iain.l...@canonical.com, kate.stew...@canonical.com, Cristian Parrino
Hi All,
Over the past week there have been a couple of cases where bug fixes
have been IMHO incorrectly marked as requiring UIFEs.
UIFEs are an important process step to make sure that string changes are
translated and that users reading documentation are not confused.
However visual bug fixes that do not involve string changes or bug fixes
will not cause any user confusion if the documentation is not updated
should not require a UIFE.
Please also take into account that documentation includes screenshots,
which are invalidated by changes to how the desktop or its components
look visually. We used to have two separate freezes, one involving
changes to strings, another involving changes to the user interface.
These have now been combined into a single "User Interface Freeze",
which applies to both types of change. I appreciate that not all
design changes will invalidate screenshots, but many of them have the
potential to, so this should be borne in mind as this discussion
proceeds.
Yes, I think it is exactly the question of what impact visual changes
have on screenshots that needs clarification.
Do we fix the 'pixelated app icons in the App Lens' bug even if this
would mean that the implementation would be slightly different from the
screenshot in the documentation?
Would any users be confused by this difference?
If we have to choose between:
a) fixing a visual bug in the Ubuntu interface (which is seen by all our
users every day)
b) not fixing the bug in the Ubuntu interface so that the documentation
screenshots are 100% consistent with the implementation.
Which is the right choice?
This release has been absolutely horrendous from the point of view of
respecting freezes. Whatever solution is adopted, it is important that
there is not a general expectation that freezes are made to be broken
as there is a last minute rush to introduce fixes which could and
should have been raised much earlier.
Agreed about respecting freezes, but respecting freezes is a different
discussion.
Even if new features get landed on time, there will always be bugs, so
these questions would still be relevant. Of course if the new features
had landed earlier this cycle we would have had more time to fix bugs,
but there will always be some bugs.
Matt
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