Re: GNOME user survey 2011

[Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:24:35AM -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
>> That is still not useful information. Developers aren't going
>> to add options for the sake of adding options. "Users want
>> more options? I guess I better hunt through my program to see
>> what I can make configurable." That's absurd.
>>
>> We need to know what users want to change, and (importantly)
>> why they want to change it. Aggregate statistics on this, even
>> if accurate and significant, are not actionable.
>
> Agree, I don't even see the point of this question in the survey. If an user
> wants a particular option the right way is to file a bug/enhancement rather
> than requesting it through a survey.

Users can't vote in bugzilla, so you have no idea if it's only 1
person, or 90% of the users the ones who want some configuration.

And there's many things you can do if you realize people desperately
need more options; like enabling votes in bugzilla, a poll, an
ideatorrent, etc.

Or do you want to go ahead, assume people need more options, build a
list of possible ones, and ask in the survey which ones they prefer?

-- 
Felipe Contreras