On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:57:19AM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
Just listening to all this discussions make my hairs stand on ends.
Whatever change is proposed, there are 10 people jumping on it why
it shouldn't be done!
That's good. The default should be some level of respect for the user base.
This is most frustrating. Again and again, we keep putting the needs
of the fringe users ahead of what is needed by regular users. Like
most others OSS projects, there seems to be a total lack of weighing
when it comes down to these things.
The awesome part is you can define "fringe users" as "other people's
use
cases" and "normal users" as "what I want".
What is important? Well, it's not rocket science (and don't
ask for
studies, I don't care for that kind of discussion):
Exactly! No need to actually study when we can just make stuff up!
3. Relevance
Get important stuff working. What's important today?
Well, it's Web, Email, Music, Video. The rest is bonus.
1) What makes those things _work_ on desktop systems?
2) What's important tomorrow?
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences