On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:32 PM, John C. Welch wrote: > On 1/25/10 6:48 PM, "Timothy Collett" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thus far, what I'm hearing from you is, "Everyone who doesn't have the same >> requirements that I do must not be a corporate worker (because, of course, >> all >> corporations are alike), and thus must be a programmer." >> >> I know it is not your intent; however, you seem to throw this line up every >> time one of us says something that amounts to, "I'm really not sure everyone >> has the same requirements as you, John." > > No one but you has said that. What I've seen, to damned near *every* > suggestion that I've made that an "indie dev" wouldn't need is "2.0 " or > "plugin".
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You say "that an "indie dev" wouldn't need", but to me, it looks like "that most people wouldn't need." And no, I am *not* an indie dev. I am a programmer and sysadmin in a small insurance company. And you know what? My users' needs are *nothing like yours*. > Yeah, because EDITING EMAIL IN AN EXTERNAL TEXT EDITOR is something that > EVERYONE WANTS TO DO. To be honest, I've never seen why you'd need that either. But I also know that an awful lot of geeks, whether programmer or not, swear by it. > Spare me. If that's what people want to support, and they like it, great. > But let's not pretend that this kind of silliness is 'common'. And here, I think is the other mistake you're making: thinking that "We won't commit to it for 1.0 within the first week of the concept's life" means "It's never going to happen, because we really don't care what everyone else wants." You need to be patient, John. What I'm seeing is that 80% of what you're asking for will most likely make it into 1.0 in some form, and at least 80% of the rest into 2.0. But that's "most likely," not "certainly," and it's *early days* yet, and if I'm understanding it right, no one but Jon Gruber and Gus Mueller has the authority to commit to adding any particular feature. So stop making it black and white, "accept this into the core NOW or admit that you're never ever going to make it anything like I want!" Timothy Collett -- "Sufficient Stupidity combined with enough Power is effectively indistinguishable from Evil." ~ dpilot, Slashdot _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
