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List:       quanta-devel
Subject:    Re: [quanta-devel] team configuration is broken
From:       Jens Herden <jens () kdewebdev ! org>
Date:       2005-08-23 3:34:47
Message-ID: 200508231034.52317.jens () kdewebdev ! org
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Hi,

> > working on it, tell me that I should ask Erik
>
> ...the Viking. ;-)

Sorry Eric! My German brain did not work correctly ;-)

> > Using two different ways for similar tasks (sending email and sending
> > annotations) is quite a bad design, because it is hard for the user
> > to follow this concepts. You force the user to mix two concepts of
> > addressing people here.
>
> Sending email is related to actions, while writing addressed annotations
> are related to the workflow (commenting the code). I don't see where do
> they intersect.

You are in the typical developer trap here. A user is not knowing what you 
think a feature is meant for. In fact users will use your feature for 
whatever they think it is good for. If someone wants to ask her co-developer 
to become his wife via annotations why not? 
So if you think about something try to break it down to the base of what it 
does. It is not workflow or commenting it is simply sending some information 
to a person. This person needs to be identified.
Sending mails via event actions is the same principle. Sending information to 
a person and you need an address. 
Both is about how to identify a person from your team in Quanta. What I say is 
that we should not have two mutual exclusive ways how to identify team 
members. This is confusing for users. 


> > Will it be documented? I could not find
> > any documentation for the annotations yet.
>
> Yes (according to my plans). 

Very well.


> But I cannot document something that: 
> - is not complete (and may change a little)
> - is only partially finished

Sure and I did not complain that it is not there. I just wanted to know if it 
is on your todo list.

Jens

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