Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felipe Contreras
>  <felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
>  >  > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:50 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>  >  >  > Still the input from the user-base is not considered?
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > How much a simple most-wanted-feature poll could hurt?
>  >  >
>  >  >  Do the poll entries come with patches attached?  If there is a feature
>  >  >  missing then file a bug and either wait for someone else to code it, pay
>  >  >  someone to code it, or code it yourself.
>  >
>  >  I find it difficult to achieve the 10x10 goal without knowing what the
>  >  users really want.
>
>  And I find it difficult to think that online polling indicates what
>  the users want (especially the 9.9999999% of the x10% who don't
>  already use GNOME.)
>
>  http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/904-why-we-disagree-with-don-norman

I looked quickly at the article, and it appears to me that basically
what is saying is:
designing for yourself is good

While I agree that eating your own dog food is good; I don't think
that's a reason to stop looking for what your users need.

This video would explain why it's good to search for what users need
much better than I could:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20

What I had in mind was something like Firefox's feature brainstorm[1]
or Dell's ideastorm[2].

Best regards.

[1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming
[2] http://www.dellideastorm.com/

-- 
Felipe Contreras