On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 14:39 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 8/6/06, Damien Durand <splinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I need feedback, if you're interested to contribute feel free to add your > > name in the usability group : > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand/Usability/UsabilityGroup > > I STRONGLY suggest that you make a sincere and very comprehensive > effort to touch base with the people working on the upstream desktop > usability level. I honestly do not see how a fedora centric project > is going to work inside the framework of the decisions which are being > made upstream inside the desktop projects. Striking out on your own to > "fix" usability inside fedora without understanding how the desktop > usability decisions impact the fedora experience, is going to do very > little but become an ultimately frustrating and fruitless waste of > time for you.. unless there is very clearly defined relationship > between what the fedora centric group is doing to support the > usability vision of the upstream desktop projects and how the fedora > centric work is moved upstream. There are very few "right" answers in > usability in the limit of a large population. You need to make damn > sure that your vision for Fedora usability works inside the upstream > vision for the desktop project you are looking to impact. The very > very last thing you want to do is have Fedora specific usability > changes to be stuck as fedora specific patches. Tie you mission > statement to specific "deliverables" that the desktop projects are > looking for help with upstream. +1 from where I sit. I don't see what this project plan accomplishes that can't be solved by (1) working with upstream, and (2) filing bugs or working through the existing Triage. -- 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
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