On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:54:22AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > The person who sends the best set of icons will get a hug and a free > drink at the earliest opportunity, plus the gratitude of masses of > people who will be spared the sight of my dreadful attempts at icon > design. Martin Owens made a point that I greatly appreciate: design is a profession and not a competition. Programmers are not expected to all create the same patch several times and then have the best one judged for inclusion, and the same should be for designers. I deeply agree: I was cargo-culting when I wrote that email, following the only script I knew. I'm grateful to Martin for making the point, and I hate the idea of competitions myself. Let's try and do this properly, then. I would like to have a set of small icons to represent progress in the NM process. The current progress states are these: app_new Applicant asked to enter the process app_rcvd Applicant replied to initial mail app_hold On hold before entering the queue adv_rcvd Received enough advocacies app_ok Advocacies have been approved am_rcvd Waiting for AM to confirm am Interacting with an AM am_hold AM put application on hold am_ok AM approved the applicant fd_hold FD puts application on hold fd_ok FD approved the AM report dam_hold DAM puts application on hold dam_ok DAM accepted the applicant done Process has completed successfully (account was created) cancelled Process has been canceled More could be added if/when we implement support for things like machine guest accounts, collab-maint and DMs, but those are what we have now for the process "from anything to DD". The icons would need to be shown alongside names in long lists like https://nm.debian.org/public/nmlist, so we are looking at a small size, like 16x16, possibly wider but not much taller. This design task looks nontrivial to me if done well, but the main goal of the icons is just to decorate a long tabular display while conveying some amount of information at a glance. I do not think such a goal justifies spending more than a few hours of work. If you think they would be useful, the old NM icons can be found at http://store.enricozini.org/old-nm-icons.tar.gz, although there is no need to reuse them. The license for the icons should be AGPL (the license of the code) or any other DFSG-free license. DFSG-free CC licensees are: CC-BY-SA-3, CC-BY-3, and CC0. Of course if you contribute to this you will be credited in the site AUTHORS file. Finally, let's not have contest, but let's just get something done. This list is fine for a little coordination, and I don't think the goal justifies setting up wikis or titanpads. Ciao, Enrico (with the help of Martin) -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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