Diana Fong wrote:
- Máirín
ReleaseGraphics was created with the aim of providing a clear listing of
the pieces and set of specifications of what I, as Visual Designer of
the Red Hat Desktop Team, make sure exists at each release. The
specifications listed were those provided to me by my team lead Matthias
Clasen, Jeremy Katz, and Than Ngo, throughout my years as the art
maintainer at Red Hat Desktop and also to further supplement the
creation of the ReleaseGraphics page.
Also word-for-word notes that I wrote for the ThemingOverview page
somehow leaked in (eg notes on testing GDM themes) and were miscredited.
Don't worry though, I've removed my contributions so you don't have to
worry about that anymore.
This page is to provide those
interested in creating a complete set of release graphics for
consideration in inclusion of Fedora by myself and the Desktop team.
That's great. That aim was already accomplished by the original
ThemingOverview page, which I might add you also contributed to a while ago.
I took full responsibility of the content. Thus requesting that
modifications be discussed on Fedora-art-list or sent to me first so
that I may confirm with the engineers whom the images would be
distributed to.
Except:
(1) that's not the way wikis work, if you've signed the CLA you don't
need permission to make modifications and improvements to pages,
(2) the specifications you contributed yourself had errors so obviously
you're not fact and error-checking before you post things (check the
history of ReleaseGraphics) and you did not discuss your plan with the
list before going ahead and just doing it,
(3) there are others on the list perfectly capable of fact-checking with
either RH package maintainers or upstream package maintainers. Creating
and discussing theme elements and their specifications is not that
complicated. I've discussed GDM theme issues with Brian Cameron, the
upstream maintainer of GDM, and discovered our themes up to this point
have had accessibility issues we should address for FC7. This is an open
community and people aren't really that hard to get a hold of.
Being that this directly relates to my role within Red
Hat's Desktop Group (as I go through this process several times for RHEL
releases) I will ultimately be the one responsible for providing the
team with the necessary usable graphics. Therefore, if the creator
follows the specs I've complied on that page, I would be responsible in
seeing that it works for the engineers and any errors would not be of
the creator who had followed my recommendations.
I don't really see how that has anything to do with these wiki pages.
Ok, so you want us community folk to submit art that makes it easier for
you to prepare to hand it off to the engineers. That's cool. Why not do
this on the community-created and contributed page on the wiki rather
than creating your own bubble? Was that page not good enough? Was it too
difficult to contribute to? Was it really beyond repair?
And so with deviations and personal comments, I take responsibility of
the content of the page with Release Graphic information separate of all
other specs that a general ThemingOverview page should include. The page
includes pieces from many people, I did not credit nor do I take
credit.
"These are the notes and specifications I've accumulated from having
completed 4-5 release designs." --Artwork/ReleaseGraphics
I created ReleaseGraphics
for those interested in understanding/creating the various pieces needed
for a complete useful Themed Release set.
How did ThemingOverview not serve that purpose? That's what I don't get.
~m
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