I sent this to sabdfl but no-one else. Here it is: I agree with your points. But most of the community (that is, real users using your distribution) seem to hate the decision:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=276048 On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:53 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Toby Smithe wrote: > > This second clause rather contradicts the first (in the second > > sentence). We have invested a huge amount of time, but you're still > > prepared to waste that when people have spent their own spare time, for > > free, on it? > I don't consider it a waste. We have all learned a lot about > coordinating artwork. We've had no shortage of energy but a great > shortage of direction and discipline. > > This just seems unprofessional and against the spirit of > > free software. > > > No - unprofessional is missing all the agreed dates, and not pulling > together as a team but instead having too many people pulling in too > many directions. True... I'll find a different word next time! :) > Before you react - consider for a moment that the REST of the > distribution does not run that way. Although coding is an art, this art is a different beast. What makes you think it should run /the same/? > It could never be the tight, focused thing that it is if it did. It's > up to the art team to rise to the level of the rest of the distro, not > simply to assume that release management processes apply less strictly > in the artwork department. And Ubuntu is indeed very tight and focused. I'd have it no other way, and it's one thing I congratulate the whole team on. > It took several releases before the work of the doc team got directly > baked into the distro, too. It's not unusual for us to have to figure > out how a particular team works best. I think we've learned a lot in > this round, it's in no sense wasted work, but if the results are > either too late or not tight and polished enough we will stick with > what we have. Wasted is something that has been made and not used. All the new (for Edgy) community artwork is wasted if you take my rather crude definition, and I think most people do. What's yours? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art