Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jamie McCracken">
>
> > > This is a pretty airy-fairy description for a developer mailing list.
> > > Your audience is not my Mum, it's the group of people architecting
> > > GNOME. You did not include use cases in your description.
> > Use Cases:
>
> Jamie, these are not use cases. Unfortunately, you've got this entirely
> backwards: Your pitch should be to developers; your use cases should be
> about what users need (often unspoken), and how Tracker satisfies those
> needs -> these use cases may be from end users or developer users... But to
> be effective, they must be described as *use cases*.
>
> I'm asking for a very specific form of description because thus far, there
> isn't a lot of knowledge or mindshare of Tracker, and your descriptions have
> not made it easy for developers to understand your point of view, or what
> Tracker brings to GNOME.

okay thanks for the clarification

I will come up with something tomorrow that hopefully addresses these.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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