[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 23:11:36 CEST 2010

Op dinsdag 21 september 2010 20:02:02 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
+> 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.
+
+I would say, that is correct.
+
+as a developer, i do not need users (some devs do), i scratch my own back. and 
+i don't like reading user comments either, but otoh, i am willing to 
+compromise a bit to give my program a broader audience, and that's why a bug 
+tracker is a good idea. also for mentioning improvements.
+
+and also having some contacts with leaders of community sites, sometimes they 
+can summarize stuff for you.
+