On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Luis Menina wrote: > 7. Who would do the work ? As someone already explained, this is not how > things work in a community. The ones who decide are not the ones who want, > but the ones who actually do the job.
I do agree with most of your points, with this caveat: There is a difference between community support and user feedback. Not every user will be part of the community, and many non-community users may have good feedback. The goal should be to involve as many users as possible, while -obtaining good feedback- from those who otherwise will not be involved. This necessitates changing the barrier of entry for non-community members. Obviously the big "post whatever you want!" system is not be the most effective way to do it. But there must be some way to gain non-technical user feedback that does not involve developer infrastructure. (The dependence upon Bugzillas and Wikis -exclusively and solely- for useful user feedback seems to be a free software phenomenon. Is there no other way of gaining feedback?) I think the discussion is worth pursuing, that's all. It is a gap in the support model of the free software community. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list