[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 20:02:02 CEST 2010

2010/9/21 Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org>:
+> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>
+> 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).
+
+That's a very idealistic point of view and I'd really like to read a
+developper's opinion on that. Because IIRC it was really a free
+developper who told me that developpers do not need users because they
+are developping for their own needs in the first place (I reasoned
+that users and developpers are needing each other as 2 parts in a
+shared system). And it was another who told me that he'd rather spend
+his time working on a problem than reading all that user stuff in the
+forums. No employees!
+
+But I wish you were right.
+