[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 19:52:59 CEST 2010

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>
+> It's not my fear that they are hiding, I know they are very busy and
+> lately I had a discussion on the cooker list where I was told with
+> very good reasoning that developpers are too occupied with their work
+> to waste their time reading user forums and they do not want to be
+> bothered by direct contact with users.  As I said there were very good
+> reasons given and I understand that.
+
+I can perfectly understand the reasons why that's the case when the 
+developers are full-time employees and do the work as a job, but this 
+shouldn't and mustn't be the case in a non-profit community project 
+where everyone is in it for the fun.
+
+In this scenario devs are normally users themselves too, and even for 
+their own satisfaction it should be natural that they at least 
+occasionally check user reactions to what they develop, by spending some 
+time on forums (at least reading through them).
+
+In every successfull non-profit community FOSS project that I have seen 
+that's the case, the devs are users themselves and do partecipate at 
+least a bit in the forums.
+
+