Upcoming UI changes for UNR: Customizing Yelp's Home Page

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Matthew,

2009/9/15 Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>:
> I'll echo Kyle's words - Dougie your reaction has come right out of
> left field for me. Although I haven't looked up the bug you are
> referring to, I did look at the structure of your branch, and I don't
> think that the approach you've taken is necessary inconsistent with
> mine (i.e. although I haven't looked at the actual documents yet, I
> don't see why your work couldn't be merged with a branch derived from
> ubuntu-docs). But I noticed that there are only two documents there at
> the moment, and I think that adding documents on an individual basis
> without importing some of the other documents from the ubuntu-docs
> branch is going to be pretty heavy work.

I'm not going to write it from scratch, I started by importing the
sections I am familiar with and wanted to review what's going in. A
lot of the trunk is redundant for a variety of reasons, hence not
building it on the current trunk verbatim.

> I wasn't trying to supercede the work you've done, I was making some
> suggestions, building on a comment Loïc made, to assist with the
> development of this very young initiative. Sharing material between
> derivatives of documentation is something we've discussed very often
> (in particular in relation to xubuntu-docs), and I think we all
> recognise as being important.

I didn't suggest you were and am not looking to argue.

> Sometimes in this community it's right to go ahead and get some work
> done, as you have here. But it's equally helpful to discuss options as
> a team and to be open to ideas about how to improve workflows and
> content. It's part of working collaboratively in a community like this
> one. Although I understand how it feels to have people make comments
> that you might perceive to be treading on your toes, leaving the
> project over something like this would be a waste and isn't really
> justified by the attempts of myself and Kyle to help out.

I'm not leaving over this, I've been increasingly frustrated and have
done for some time.

> I'm totally ready to listen to objections or concerns, whether
> practical or theoretical, to the approach I've proposed. As I say, I
> don't think it's inconsistent with using the work that you've already
> done. Equally, I'm ready for it not to be adopted. I wasn't
> recommending it because of any hidden agenda, just to try and help.

I don't doubt you're trying to help Matthew, I hope to keep in touch
but I need to step back.

-- 
Regards,

Dougie Richardson
http://www.lynxworks.eu/
dougierichardson at ubuntu.com