[ubuntu-art] WORK

[Troy James Sobotka]

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Mark said:
  Billy wrote: 
>     Yes, I understand all of that, I was just curious about 
>     going from 2 or 3 to just 1 or 2, so soon :D

Hmm... depends how optimistic I'm feeling when I hit send. Call it "1",
and if it looks like the team can handle more, "2". We have very tight
constraints on space on the CD's, and a whole theme, with a complete
icon set, is a lot of space. It is basically "the fewest number that
gives us good diversity and which we can do at very high quality".

I'm afraid, with this final rush, that we will end up releasing Dapper
with all of the old Gnome default theme crap I wanted to remove, along
with a few  new but not very well thought through or complete themes.
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A full working theme is a helluva lot of work and there is a heck of 
a lot more to it than simply saying "make it greener". 

* We need package information so Daniel doesn't get another bomb.
* We need details on how to add / adjust / integrate various
  concepts with these packages.
* We need to know who will do the packaging.  Who will test. Etc.

We need to work on our design docs to at least localize:

* What targets are realistically accomplished in a short
  development cycle.  I attempted to address this in the
  design doc draft, so please take a moment to read it at 
  the wiki.

If we don't document any of this in formal, we will repeat our
previous folly.  Just as many members have pointed out,
it is not enough to simply 'sound off' on the mailing list.
It is the execution that is critical.

Anyone who is reading this can help get some work done _now_
by at least looking at the doc and trying to get the package
listing finished.  If you have experience with getting any 
artistic thing into the actual cycle, send me a note or 
wiki a brief summary or SOMETHING.

Also, if someone could collect via wiki searching relevant
pages that might be of use and slush them for Et to sort out
it would be great.

Thanks to anyone and everyone who helps.  Just go find ONE
page.  Add it to a Et's structure.  

Many hands makes for light work.