On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:55 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Rahul wrote: > >> ...but the process by which one gets (non-icon) artwork into the > >> distribution remains muddily-defined & mysterious despite the > >> contributions of several community members. *Extremely* frustrating. > >> Looks like we'll be stuck with Fedora bubbles again. > >> > > It should be relatively simple to file a patch against any particular > > package or talk to the relevant package maintainers and release > > engineering team if you need help. > > I have and I've been told that package maintainers do not have final say > over what default artwork is approved for inclusion in their package. > > This is supposed to be a community distribution. This includes code and > artwork, right? Or am I just being a rabble rouser here? > > > The development processes itself need to be better documented and I will > > get to doing that ASAP. What have you tried so far and what exactly is > > frustrating? > > I started creating a theme as a potential default for FC6 which I > continue to receive extremely positive feedback on. Yet, there is no > formal process to submit it and get it 'approved' by whomever (within > RH's walls right now I guess - I would *love* for this to be something > the community had control over though, maybe the FAB or maybe a small > group of art community members could make a decision). So my artwork > sits there and I've given up on finishing & implementing everything in > time for FC6 because there's no sign/indication that my effort won't be > wasted (and frankly, I'm involved in other FOSS projects where, instead > of me struggling to get artwork in, I'm invited quite nicely to > contribute and my work is taken seriously. Can you guess where I'm > preferring to spend my time these days?) > > It's not really important to me *what* artwork gets in, quite frankly. I > think the stuff Ify and Andy have come up just within the past couple of > days is fabulous & far better than the DNA stuff I threw together. I > just strongly believe that community contributions aren't taken > seriously and they should be (and by taken seriously I mean actually > used in the distro!!) > > In summary, the process of getting artwork into a Fedora release *needs* > to be transparent & documented, and I think some community input needs > to be built into this process. Máirín, Don't get too frustrated... I suspect that there is a "vast silent majority" of community members like myself who really dig your work. I am constantly amazed at the Good Stuff I see coming out of this project, both in the Echo development process and the neat backgrounds, theme elements, and such. If you needed an "attaboy," consider it done! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
