Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 20:51, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: My question to you would be, why didn't agreement ever get reached? Why, four years later, are we still arguing about desktop activity? I see a failure of cooperation; not of the design team's but rather of the whole

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Tomeu: On 04/26/12 02:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 15:10, Alberto Ruizar...@gnome.org wrote: I'm afraid that interfering in the maintainer's responsibilities is a very big can of worms, more likely to do harm than good. There's something powerful in how a maintainer

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-25 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Why did I write that mail? First of all, I'm very sorry for doing precisely what I was trying to prevent - alienating people. I wrote that mail in anger, always a bad idea. I owe everyone, and especially the design team, an explanation. In Gnome we are going through a period where there is a

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-25 Thread Jason D. Clinton
Will probably regret writing this email, but here it goes, anyway. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: One of the main points of Nat's talk was that we were at a point where Gnome was ignoring innovation for fear of losing simplicity. His

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às 20:58 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escreveu: snip From http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct Assume people mean well From your mail: The design team IS NOT welcome to: * Second-guess maintainers or well-intentioned contributors. * Block development

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Xan Lopez
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: The design team IS NOT welcome to: * Second-guess maintainers or well-intentioned contributors. Surely the Design Team is also composed of well intentioned contributors that only want the best for Gnome and do

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Federico; I think this email is not at all warranted - and it generates more fuel for flames. On 24 April 2012 02:58, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: The design team IS welcome to: The design team IS NOT welcome to: these elements contradict what you write below *

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
OK first let us all please calm down (This does not apply to Emmanuele, since he seems always calm :P) We all have the best intentions at heart. I think Federico knows exactly that the design team has best intentions. And I hope the design team knows that Federico has the same intentions. This

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I would like to take a moment to make a reflection. Maintainers only get to decide what's done in their modules back then when GNOME was organized in a maintainer centric fashion. However with 3.0 we have moved towards a model where yet another force is included in the decision making process,

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 11:08 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: * Assume that no one but them does design that is good for Gnome. if you're designing for Gnome, then *by definition* you are on the Gnome design team. I designed the dynamic help menus. I don't think anybody thinks of me as being on

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think an apology is in order. That would require criticizing somebody in an inappropriate way first. I don't see that here. However I would have appreciated if Federico had elaborated on the reasons and motivation for his post. andre

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
Em Tue, 2012-04-24 às 15:50 +0200, Andre Klapper escreveu: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think an apology is in order. That would require criticizing somebody in an inappropriate way first. I don't see that here. I don't agree. I find it rude and out-of-order,

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 15:06 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Em Tue, 2012-04-24 às 15:50 +0200, Andre Klapper escreveu: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think an apology is in order. That would require criticizing somebody in an inappropriate way first. I don't

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às 20:58 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escreveu: snip From http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct Assume people mean well Federico made no statements as to anybody's intentions or motivations. For

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:58 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às 20:58 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escreveu: snip From http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct Assume people mean well Federico

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:58 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às 20:58 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escreveu: snip From

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:58 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: --8-- From: Maître D' Subject: Spitting in the soup The kitchen staff IS NOT welcome to: * Spit in the soup --8-- I didn't say you spat in the soup Correct - nobody stated so far that anybody spat in the soup. As you already

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: --8-- From: Maître D' Subject: Spitting in the soup The kitchen staff IS NOT welcome to: * Spit in the soup --8-- I didn't say you spat in the soup