Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:50 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>  >  > Still the input from the user-base is not considered?
>  >  >
>  >  > How much a simple most-wanted-feature poll could hurt?
>  >
>  >  Do the poll entries come with patches attached?  If there is a feature
>  >  missing then file a bug and either wait for someone else to code it, pay
>  >  someone to code it, or code it yourself.
>
>  I find it difficult to achieve the 10x10 goal without knowing what the
>  users really want.

And I find it difficult to think that online polling indicates what
the users want (especially the 9.9999999% of the x10% who don't
already use GNOME.)

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/904-why-we-disagree-with-don-norman

might be a good read.

Luis