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On 4/28/2016 10:59 AM, Jim Porter wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">2. Would a super-review process have prevented the debacle?
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<pre wrap="">I think it would help <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>if<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> super-reviewers agreed on the standards for
making changes (not additions or deletions) to the UI. Having set
standards for this is a key to ensuring that it will work.
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I can agree that some standards would be valuable, and are really
the key to this. What I would suggest is that you write the
standards, get us to agree, and then leave it at that. In virtually
all cases that I can think of where UI was pushed on users, there
were complainers (sometimes me) who argued against an aggressive
implementation. But there is also always a counter-reaction that
falls back to "someone will always complain, we just need to move
forward with new features anyway." What is missing is either 1) a
single authority to make large decisions with marketing focus (such
as a product manager), or 2) objective principles that we can use to
justify complaints.<br>
<p>If you can write standards that you think can distinguish between
good and bad cases of pushing new features, you have my support.
But I am very reluctant to formalize that into some "super-review"
process other than our existing process of 1) regular review, 2)
ui-review, 3) module owner resolving disputes, 4) Thunderbird
Council as a potential overruling of all.</p>
<p>:rkent<br>
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