On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 09:12 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > Dear friends, > > I apologize in advance for the cross-post but it seems adequate here, as this > proposal involves users and developers.
> > In the article, Eugenia correctly points out that OSS projects tend to ignore > the needs of *ordinary* users: currently the OSS model tends to favour the The biggest flawed assumption in this whole debate is that people who read osnews or subscribe to mailing list are "ordinary users". Gnome devs are NOT ordinary users, you Maurizio are NOT an ordinary user, I am NOT an ordinary user. My wife is an ordinary user, she prefers to use windows (because of better Japanese input) and she would never even think twice about features she wants in a computer, let alone think of looking up and using something remotely resembling a bugzilla! However many times your mother looks at her car/dvd player/toaster/etc and think "wouldn't it be cool if this could do X", and you have how many times your mother will think about doing that with Gnome. If you forget the above fact, then you'll have the horrendous sample bias Euginia was warned about on d-d-l. That said, I have no problem in principle with people putting their money where their mouth is to support FOSS, but the trick is to do it without adversely affecting the current dynamic. I agree with Luis, and think something very *loosely* coupled with the current process (bugzilla) would be better. I agree with Sean, that users need to pose problems to be solved by the dev, not their own possibly ill conceived solutions. Cheers, Ryan _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
