[ubuntu-art] Public/official aims of this team

[Who]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Bharat Varma <nbharatvarma at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Who <mailforwho at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Julian Oliver <julian at selectparks.net>
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>> > ..on or around Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:06:57AM -0400 Salane Ashcraft
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>> I was thinking of something like:
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Snip description of the team as "we don't design the default theme, we
are a group of people designing extra themes that one day might
challenge the default"

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> We can never get consensus in an open group like this with multiple teams
> working on different themes.

Indeed, but I question whether we need a consensus! This team does not
design the default theme for a whole host of very well discussed
historical reasons. We are only wasting peoples' time if we pretend we
are.

> What I think might work is this -
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Snip vote for direction model.

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> Everyone is doing a great job - Ken Vermette, KIm, the New Wave theme guys
> etc., but we need to vote on one direction. The sooner we do this, the
> better. Once we have a direction decided, we will have reasonable clues for
> everything else - icons, wallpapers etc. And once we decide the direction,
> we know the engine we use and therefore can request help from the engine
> authors in case the primary developers are stuck with something.
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I really don't think one direction is the best plan for us as a team -
hence my suggestion that our focus be moved _officially_ away from
this. Because new members keep joining who haven't been through the
whole process we have to keep establishing every release that Ken does
the default theme with the assistance of the team _because he is the
best person to do it_ for a whole load of reasons including the fact
that he is employed by Mark and so has a good chance of making things
that he likes.

Who