<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 5 Jun 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> 
> > We're done it internally (like 99% of our specs, AFAIK):
> > FrancoisPons, Warly, DavidBaudens and I have discussed the specs,
> > and it has been posted to our technical mailing-list for critics.
> 
> I suspected as much, but just wanted to let you know that it might
> not be a bad idea to do some proper 'marketresearch' first. Although
> I'm not sure whether cooker people qualify as users, there is a danger
> with developing these things internally. The real world might differ
> from the opinion of four people.

Actually, DavidBaudens is our internal "real world users"
specialist, and until now he has taken rather good decisions.
 
> Just give it a thought. You may disagree completly, but I have seen
> strange products designed in a lab, just to be thrown away as completly
> useless when it was finally produced.

I agree, though it's rather a matter of development policy, for
which I don't qualify to decide :-). And don't forget that it
needs much time -> discussing on mailing-lists is by far not as
efficient as a real people meetings, unfortunately.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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