[FusionAdmin] Admin list usage (was: The New Layout -- Mockup)

[Will Farrington]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:09 -0700, Quinn Storm wrote:
> Sorry for the megaquote, still getting used to the ui
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Will Farrington <wcfarrington at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 00:47 +0200, Kristian Lyngstøl wrote:
> >> Please don't top quote and only quote the relevant part you are  
> >> answering to.
> >>
> >> On 7/24/07, Will Farrington <wcfarrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Simply put, within hours we'd have had a Digg posting on the front  
> >>> page
> >>> and 328793754 rabid forum-goers all trying desperately to have  
> >>> their own
> >>> individual little request put into the theme... and as a result  
> >>> things
> >>> would take longer and the final product would be of lesser quality.
> >>
> >> People keep throwing this argument right and left. That we get
> >> attention shouldn't be a reason to choose a closed development cycle.
> >> And I also think you overestimate the importance of this. If digg
> >> people really want to read all about it, then why shouldn't they be
> >> allowed to?
> >
> > Because it's begging people to judge an unfinished product as if it  
> > were
> > a finished one. After all, it's unfair to both the person designing  
> > the
> > layout as well as the project which is represented by the layout when
> > people begin to assume and critique it as if it's an entirely final
> > product - which it isn't.
> >
> 
> Aren't we trying to do an open project here? Isn't the whole point  
> that there is no "finished" until the users say so?

In terms of code, this is true.

But web development is not at all comparable to development of code.
There is no "sourceforge" for developing websites for many reasons.
Simply put, "opening up" web development is not a feasible solution by
any stretch of the imagination.

That is not to say that once the website is launched that feedback will
not be accepted, and in fact appreciated, from the users - but rather
that such feedback in the middle of the design process offers no
immediately rewarding gains and instead puts more undue stress on those
developing the website in question.