On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:37:45PM +0000, Rob Church wrote:
I strongly object to the assertion that the
development team is in
anyway elitist or deliberately ignorant of user opinion; that is
simply unfair and completely untrue. If we didn't care about the user
base, we wouldn't actually be doing this.
And I wanna throw an oar in the water here, too...
40 million users...
10 developers?
Yeah, they're not gonna roll over for everything anyone says; there
*has* to be a filtering process or they'll all catch fire, like they
were dumb enough to dance for [[Sweet (Buffyverse)]].
That's going to look to the 'civilians' like the developers are copping
an attitude, sometimes; I see no way to completely avoid it.
But yes, people are going to be expected to filter themsleves through
the funneling system if they want to get stuff done.
Wikipedia probaly serves more 'users' with fewer developers than any
other OSS project I've ever seen... and I, for one, think they're doing
a pretty decent job...
Happy Next Year to all of them....
Cheers,
-- jra
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