Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

[Paolo Sammicheli <xdatap1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Disclaimer:
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Not being English native speaker I tend to sound more rude than I would, my apologize in 
advance. My real intention is to provide a positive contribution to the discussion. 

Alle 23:22 del 27/4/2010, Martin Owens ha scritto:
> A few of my community circles react to Design Team news with a *sigh*
> and "Oh god what have they done now". The teams reputation is low and
> it's over shadowing the really great work that's going on. 

What Martin said it's true. From my perspective not "A few in my community" but 
"most of the community's pillars". IMHO, this is an urgent issue and we need to fix it 
as soon as possible.

Alle 01:22 del 29/4/2010, Andrew SB ha scritto:
> But do I think that it is important to remember that Lucid
> saw an entire re-branding of our image, no small task and something
> that more or less had to be rolled out all at once. Despite that, the
> team still managed to get their work in on time for the UI freeze.

I'm so sorry to disagree with you in this. The entire process, from my perspective, 
worked regardless the schedule. Theme was applied the day before the UI freeze without 
any previous discussion or even information. Then button order changed again with a 
final statement the 1 April, nearly one month after the UI Freeze. Few days after this  
usability bug I found in UNE (1) was marked "low" and "late to be fixed" because "we 
passed the UI Freeze for a month now" but weeks later the envelope icon in the indicator 
applet changed.

About the re-branding we got some assets just today, few hours before the release, and 
looking at the brand it changed again. The circle of friends looks slightly different in 
today's pdf. And LoCos still don't have the font for updating their sites.

If we set some rules before to play, then every player should follow those rules. If 
there's even the perception that someone could go over the rules those who play just for 
fun would be de-motivated to continue in playing.

(1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/window-picker-applet/+bug/556686

Ciao!
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Paolo Sammicheli
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