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[Vishnoo <vish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 21:17 -0300, Conscious User wrote:
> 
> Remco wrote:
> > The thing I find jarring is that we have this mysterious design
> > team that basically discusses things behind our backs here at
> > Ayatana. I understand that a small team with face-to-face
> > meetings can be beneficial to design, but a problem lies in
> > communication and collaboration between the team and Ayatana.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the current situation is... weird, to say the least. I've
> always heard rumors that the design team worked far from the rest,
> but at the same time always felt comforted by the fact that at
> least *someone* from the team (Matthew and, before, David Siegel)
> was active here. Apparently, that doesn't mean much.
> 

Is it a coincidence that the two of them worked in Open source projects
_before_ joining Canonical design team..? ;-)

This topic has been hashed, re-hashed over-n-over again several times..
I, for one, definitely see a huge improvement in communication from the
design team. Several members have replied here to questions that are
being asked. And IMO, recently, this has ceased to be a problem..

We have to realize that this mailing list is *very* high volume and you
really can not expect everyone in the design team to read each-n-every
mail and reply to every idea that is being thrown out at them..
I'm always amazed how Mark is able to keep up though, and at MPT too but
to a lesser extent.. ;-)

And this mailing list is *not* a place for them to propose their ideas.
They have blogged about most of their new ideas on their blog.
This is just a communication channel where we can propose ideas for
their consideration.

I think its high time we dropped the design-team-bashing for not
communicating each and every time a change is made..  ;-)

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Cheers,
Vish