Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

[Tim]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 08:15 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them
> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers
> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints.
>  
> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of
> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying
> users of RedHat Enterprise .

There's little point in having a user base of testers (which Fedora
users are, by the very nature of what Fedora is - rapidly changing,
never stable, trying things out before it ends up in Red Hat Linux, no
matter how many people say "it's not a 'testbed' distro"), if you don't
pay any attention to what they say about it.

That means not only bug reports about errors, but also usability issues
(bad interfaces, burdensome design, lack of features, et cetera).


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