Michael wrote: > > So, only-users are more or less ignored ? No, only-users bring up good ideas, and if a coder likes it, they will code it up and it gets added. Open source tends to be a do-acracy, where those that do something get their will done.
A key trick is to motivate one of the do-ers to do what you want. In the commercial world, it is done by dangling money in front of the developers, or those that pay the developers. > This is actually not so worse for me - most statements in the original > thread seem to reflect my personal view anyway. I think anyone who > likes Windowmaker, and really works with it, must match some main > ideals, at least to some degree. There is a common foundation. But > this does not mean it's totally congruent, and i am sure you will pick > up the discussion some day....but, i understood it is not my talk, and > i should redraw from this list. Does anyone know if wmaker user list > is still active ? But honestly, if you do not look so hard for user > feedback, i am unsure if i should sign there. I don't have the number of subscribers, but I can say the activity level is low. -dev definately has the majority of posts, and the traffic is low enough that no one feels the need to redirect -user-esque questions off to -user. -john -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
