Peteris Krisjanis schrieb: > It is needed, no matter how hard it is. Because it is next level - > when we actually start to care what happens after code. Being > proactive about features and problems about them is way forward. >
That should be written in stone ;-) >> One could try to select a good mix of volunteers from different >> backrounds who are willing to test new features and give feedback >> > > Testing should be done, yes, but again, nor GNOME nor distributions > don't have such manpower. I wrote "volunteers". I think we should be able to find a handful of people willing to test. Maybe also we can give them something in return - and if its only public attention - maybe let them write blogs - so have some kind of userplanet.gnome.org and encourage them to write about what they experience. I know this is happening in the blog world already - but most GNOME users that write blog entries nobody really knows and nobody cares. And also nobody really knows what they are using. I think this even does need to meet high standards technically or scientifically - I just say give the users a seat in the front row and listen to them. You cant listen to all of them - its true that there are a lot of Bugzillas out there but that is not the same. For example I know a telephone company that works with Ubuntu/GNOME only for some years now - somebody there could report about their experience which could really be valuable for the business view. > Of course, mainstream oriented distros should look for more casual > testing (user groups and stuff), but it is up to them. > That is part of our problem and as far as i have understood other people also thought about how one could better link bug reports betwen distribution<->gnome bugzilla. But I also think that GNOME does not get enough direct information from users. I think that "let the distribution" handle the user side does not really work out - this at least what I see today - if you look at GNOME you can see how some things got wrong because the GNOME developers and the users seemed to have gotten out of contact. regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list