On 12/31/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Asking permission? No. But the current situation looks to me like:
- Developers randomly without any warning make unannounced changes
that affect users. 2) CSS and Javascript hackers randomly without any warning make unannounced changes that affect users. 3) Users get peeved due to their feeling of powerlessness, and not knowing any better, blame developers or CSS/Javascript hackers at random. 4) Developers consider this unfair.
How do you think this can be improved?
I don't think it can be. Twenty-nine times out of thirty, step 3 never happens, and any further review processes or whatever will hold up those twenty-nine times as well as (even more than) the last. Generally the only criticism of developers is failure to institute desirable things, not institution of undesirable things. People are happy with almost every change we make, and in fact, in this case almost everyone was happy as well as far as I can see.
On 12/31/06, Michael Wechner michael.wechner@wyona.com wrote:
one could introduce a RTC (review then commit) process instead CTR, whereas one could do the review on a "staging branch" in order to be more efficient.
Review by whom, the users? How would you get the general body of users to review even a few changes a week without making them live? Real businesses and whatnot get around this by market studies and so forth, but we don't have those.