[Scummvm-devel] Proper communication
David Eriksson
david at scummvm.org
Fri Aug 13 07:51:03 CEST 2004
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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