On 21.08.2016 22:17, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
On Monday 01 August 2016 12:05:25 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
On 01.08.2016 11:20, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Thank you for doing this.
I am baffled by the extreme coherence between answers of contributors and
of users. Seems like a perfect match.
Indeed, I was equally surprised by that. It is true, though (I've just
re-checked the data to be 100% sure).
If someone says "KDE has lost touch with their userbase", we can confidently
say "No, we haven't, look at that
survey we just did!". At least judging from our attitudes. To the extent
that our actions match our attitudes,
we should be all lined up with what our users want.
Our users should like a Mission Statement derived from these results, then
:)
just arrived back home. :-)
That's actually a very similar issue to what I have at work: while following
wishes from existing users certainly makes those happier, but is this actually
the right way if you want to reach people who are not yet using this software
? (serious question, not rhetoric)
Alex
Doing what current users want just because they want it is a way which is
unlikely
to lead to long-term success. However, the community came to similar preferences
as the users without knowing what preferences the users have.
If I were to decide, I'd have set different preferences, but setting a Mission
which
the community does not agree with is not useful in a volunteer-driven community.
If all most contributors want to focus on desktop Linux, I can say that KDE
should
focus on mobile all day, without any effect.
