<[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/