[Scummvm-devel] Proper communication

[David Eriksson]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 18:59, Max Horn wrote:
> Yo folks,
> 
> I just learned by chance on IRC that we (the ScummVM team) were given 
> ITE ("saga") source by WyrmKeep. More info here: < 
> http://logs.scummvm.org/scummvm.log.30Jul2004>
> 
> Well that's good news.
> 
> The bad news is that I only learned about this by chance. I mean, 
> normally I'd expect that all developers are informed about such a big 
> event. At the very least I'd expect the team leads (Ender and me) to be 
> informed. That wasn't the case... so once again:
> 
> Just discussing something on IRC is not equivalent to announcing it. At 
> least drop an email to scummvm-devel to inform everybody. If you want 
> to keep things "secret", mail us privately. You can't expect everybody 
> to read all the IRC logs all the time, and even if one does, it's easy 
> to miss things. I don't want you to announce every little detail here 
> on the list, but to me it is common courtesy to at least notify people 
> about major events (like new modules being added; engines being 
> removed; source being donated; new developers on the team; new release; 
> etc.)

Max, I agree with you one this one!

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