Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s...
by joe_the_user on Monday February 28, 2011 @01:54AM
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The problem is that coders and the designers are in a different world.
If contributed code to a project, I'd expect another coder who knew what they were doing to change it.
But what happened is more as if someone contributed code and then, say, a tech writer changed so it wouldn't compile and then checked the code in.
I suspect it's not so much that a designer want to have their design never change. Rather, they want someone reasonably competent change it. The programmer often doesn't even know that they've "broken" the design by changing a few pixels.
If contributed code to a project, I'd expect another coder who knew what they were doing to change it.
But what happened is more as if someone contributed code and then, say, a tech writer changed so it wouldn't compile and then checked the code in.
I suspect it's not so much that a designer want to have their design never change. Rather, they want someone reasonably competent change it. The programmer often doesn't even know that they've "broken" the design by changing a few pixels.