On 09/29/2011 12:27 PM, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:46 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 09/29/2011 02:02 AM, Craig White wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 15:15 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>>> I think you're missing the point. A major goal of any leading-edge
>>> distro is to get feedback from users on new features. In other words,
>>> getting negative feedback from users isn't a bug, it's a feature.
>> ----
>> sure - but let's not confuse excessive vocalizations by 15 people or so
>> to represent a significant percentage.
>
> We don't have any real way to figure out how representative complaints
> are. We can only act on what we hear: the squeaky wheel is the one
> that gets the grease, as ever.
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I think you are now understanding why few developers monitor the various
users lists.
I don't know why you think that. I don't know that few developers
monitor the various users lists, either.
>> I vaguely recall the mantra... it's not a bug if it's
not in bugzilla -
>> does that not apply any more?
>
> Huh?
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are you that new to RH and Linux?
No. I've been here for a long time. Longer than almost everyone
else, as it happens. Your question seemed to be a non sequitur: AFAIK
the complaints about missing buttons etc are indeed in Bugzilla. So I
don't know why you made that point.
>> Then of course, there's feedback appropriateness...
perhaps you should
>> earmark a bugzilla page, a wiki page or a forum page for sound off
>> because the same people griping about the same things over and over
>> again on the mail list really denigrates the usefulness of the mail
>> list.
>
> You and I don't get to decide how other people complain. They're free
> to complain in any way they want. If they think they're being ignored
> in one forum they'll find another. All that we can decide is how we
> respond to their complaints.
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OK - respond
I respond to complaints about the stuff *I* work on, as I said just a
few messages ago. I don't work on GNOME.
Andrew.