On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Vishnoo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > While we are getting new submissions for each task, there seems to be > less activity here regarding the submissions and it is not clear that > there were submissions even. > If anyone had to check the new submissions they will have to keep > checking the respective flickr groups *daily* for submissions. Not > everyone would be doing that. Only the people running the tasks would > look into it fairly regularly. > > We need to get more eyes on the submissions. > More people expressing their views/opinions/critique on the submissions. > Announcements will also help get a review earlier than the deadline and > time for tweaks. > Ensuing discussion might create new/better ideas. > > Let's make announcement of the submissions mandatory and make sure it is > mentioned in every task page. > > While I can see clearly the benefits of announcing the submissions to the mailing list, I totally fail understanding why it must be mandatory?
Is it that difficult to check the flickr groups once in a while? Do you know how much time it takes to click a few links and check a couple of galleries vs. the time spent creating a wallpaper? Personally, I'll be more than happy to see my submissions discussed on the list, but I won't make any announcements. > Now the question would be, what if someone has not announced and the > submission is too good to miss out? > If someone finds a submission sitting in the collection pool > un-announced for more than a week, just announce it for the submitter. > (not necessary that the submitter needs to be the one who announces.) > And, let's make sure the submitter is notified that their submission is > being discussed here. > > Would we still miss a few submissions? Maybe. If no one is excited > enough about the submission to make the proxy-announcement either, would > it have been selected? Maybe not. > > But, skipping out on a few submissions seems a trade off to growing and > building a larger community. > > What do others think? Shall we make this mandatory? > > -- > Cheers, > Vish > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
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