On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
Dirk Hohndel wrote:
In open source usually software gets better BECAUSE the constant
feedback of the community is taken seriously.
Interfaces in most OS software tend to suck because they try to
please everyone, give undue consideration to the loudest members of
the community, design by committee, or add an option whenever
there's a disagreement.
Wow, the guy who brags everywhere how he's doing an open source
product and is therefore so much better than the others who don't do
open source finally admits that he doesn't care for open source.
Eye opening. But certainly not a surprise at all after following this
discussion for the last couple of months.
I don't feel that our feedback is taken seriously at all - most if
not all of the things I list above have been reported over and over
again, yet nothing has changed.
Quite the opposite, this is the first release where feedback on the
new design was specifically solicited, and hundreds of people have:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also where most of the decisions in previous versions of WordPress
were more or less arbitrary (I can attest personally), or based on
faulty premises like "fitting everything on one screen is better,"
most in 2.5 were based on feedback from users new and old, and
watching what they did vs what they said. (Which is often very
different.)
The true test of the release is how usage and adoption of WordPress
changes after 2.5 (what people do), especially after people have had
a few days to settle into the new feel of things, which I truly
believe is a step forward.
We didn't always make the safest choices, but we made the best ones.
Some things will be uncomfortable to people who have been using WP
for years, but I'm confident over time there'll be less and less
friction.
The arrogance and disrespect for the people on this list is impressive.
Thanks, I now know that our work here is done.
/D
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