On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 17:52 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 16:39, Jon Masters
<jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:48 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> I don't mean to sound unenthusiastic about the new design. While
> visually appealing, it sadly doesn't "do it" for me like the Ubuntu
page
> does in saying what I want and how I get it.
I am tired, I am grumpy and I am tired and grumpy about these sorts of
emails right after a release. You will probably get a nicer answer
from the people who actually did all the hard work, but I am not a
nice person right now.
The web group worked really hard on this, they designed it in the
open, went through several revisions from input, and got it out under
a really tight deadline. There was also a LOT of looking at other
websites and getting ideas from people who were outside of Fedora to
see how it played with new people. Design points that didn't work were
removed, and new stuff were put in.
The people here worked as professionals and deserve some professional
courtesy versus a bike shedding critique.
I appreciate your point. Lots of people did lots of work, and this is
all true. Nonetheless, I am reporting subjectively that I went to the
site and wasn't directly informed there was a new release, where to get
it, or where the wiki even was. This I don't call "bikeshedding". That
would be "oh geeze, I don't like the color" or "the Javascript looks
bad
on my cellphone" or whatever. I'll try nicer phrasing next time :)
Jon.