RE: [libreoffice-website] Re: Libreoffice.org website dev sitrep 2011-02-02 - [Was: Work on the "Why?" pages]

Good enough. 

I don't have any issues with the SC decision at all. In fact, this same unequivocal reply should 
have come two months ago.

As I said in my first mail, we should not be forced to second-guess the SC's intent.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what we have been doing because SC's message was not clear earlier.

For that matter, the appointment of the as website team also came as a surprise.
This was not announced through the most obvious channel (in this mail list).
The information trickled through David as part of another discussion, which is very strange. 

Let us hope the organizational announcements are made more gracefully in future.

-Narayan


> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 08:38:40 +0100
> From: charles.h.schulz@gmail.com
> To: website@libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-website] Re: Libreoffice.org website dev sitrep 2011-02-02 - [Was: Work on 
> the "Why?" pages]
>
> Hello Narayan, everyone,
>
> Just a reminder:
>
> We will not consider any move to another CMS, platform, etc. until at least 6 months. At that 
> stage (in 6 months or so) we might/may perhaps *consider* (not necessarily approve) a move to a 
> platform such as Drupal.
>
> Until that stage:
> 1) no discussion about Drupal on this list.
> 2) no "major overhaul" of the website.
>
> What this does not mean:
> 1) we can't change the way some of the content is presented on the website. (see the wiki page 
> for this)
> 2) we can't improve the website in minor ways.
> 3) we can't fix bugs.
>
>
> Yes, there comes a time when the website is "completed" and where only incremental improvements 
> are needed.
> Again: LibreOffice is not about a website nor about letting people satisfy their passion about 
> web design, at least not primarily. We do not want a website that keeps on changing because 
> people think their way is better. 
> We (the SC) do not want to reopen yet another thread about these topics. The level of energy and 
> effort spent on this topic (the website) is ridiculously high compared to what we need to to work 
> on. We're therefore glad that there are people who want to help but there comes a point where 
> it's not helpful, because someone's always pushing, pushing and always pushing. Same thing with 
> respect to the website confcall: we haven't agreed on working again on overhauling the website, 
> we haven't agreed on changing the website team, which for the sake of clarity is composed of the 
> same 4 people the SC has appointed.
>
> Thank you,
>
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> charles.h.schulz
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