On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:56:31 -0400
Máirín Duffy wrote:
> There were multiple blog posts on the redesign posted to Planet Fedora
> [1] (and syndicated to many other Linux & open source-related blog
> planets) over a period of several months, as well as mentioned on Fedora
> Weekly News [2], discussed on the Fedora websites mailing list,
> logistics mailing list, and design mailing list.
But not, of course, on the fedora users list I guess, the list where
the folks who are actually going to use this stuff hang out.
+10
The Vogons had their plans for the destruction of Earth on file in
the
galactic office on Alpha-Centauri too :-).
;-)
> I appreciate your effort in trying to participate, but I hope you can
> see how your feedback would easily be interpreted as non-constructive
> and inflammatory. Especially when I gave you an example link to where
> the design was posted last fall, and you reply that you wouldn't have
> bothered to look at it. It makes it seem as if you are not really
> interested in helping, only complaining.
If Ford gave me an opportunity to look at their plans for redesigned
controls in their new line of cars, I wouldn't bother to look at that
either because I wouldn't think they would be idiotic enough to remove
the brake pedal since, after all, the car will stop anyway when it
hits something :-).
Complaining after the fact is the only possible response available
when something you couldn't imagine happening in your wildest dreams
is foisted on you. You can't spend 24 hours a day trying to guess
what cliques of developers are off planning the next disaster so
you can attempt to constructively participate ahead of time and
head them off.
+100
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