Re: Suggestion Box? ATTN: Dre
James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
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Waldo Bastian wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>On Fri, 16 May 2003 06:02 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote: >> >>>But, to my question: Where is the suggestion box? And. no I don't >>>mean submitting a 'feature request' bugs. Somewhere KDE needs to be >>>designed and suggestions need to be discussed. I realize that this is >>>contrary to what I see. What I see seems antithetical to Open Source >>>-- a rather closed and insular world where those in that world know >>>that they are right about everything and do not want any input from >>>the outside; certainly not from users. > > > The ratio (useful?) suggestions to useful code is about 20:1. If I would have > to follow up on all suggestions made I would not have any time left to write > any code. In a way, your are saying that your are too busy writing code to design it. :-) That is, I feel that a discussion of how things should work is a necessary part of design. > In fact, many KDE developers don't have time enough to read a > mailinglist like [email protected] at all. I'm not certain that this is a valid point. Perhaps they need to make time to do it. > If you can't backup suggestions > with working code the chances are very small that they get picked up. It appears to me that it should be determined is the suggestion have validity, or need modification, before they are coded. -- JRT Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.