Custom Partition Fedora 18

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Mon Feb 18 23:57:27 UTC 2013


On 18/02/2013 22:57, jonc wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 04:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>> ...the people who really do think that everybody should love Gnome 3
>> because they do are providing a disproportionate percentage of the
>> comments on it... and that some of the Gnome 3 devs (being human)
>> listen more to what they want to hear than to anything else. No
>> conspiracy, just people being people.
>
> I don't think we can know the total number of people commenting on Gnome
> 3. Even if we could, we have no way of knowing the total number of
> people using Gnome 3, or what they think of it. People who go online to
> comment are only representative of themselves.
>
> I'd rather all developers pay little attention to anecdotal user
> comments and rely, instead, on focused, organized, professional user
> testing efforts. Those are rare in FOSS because developers often don't
> like to do things like that.

So your argument is that developers should focus on the feedback that is 
rare to the point of non-existence instead of the feedback that is 
arguable to be unreliable?

Gordan


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