Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Marco Scannadinari
> <marco scannadinari co uk> wrote:
> > In fact, I think that these sorts of subtle
> > design-based decisions should be held in something like loomio (see
> > recent loomio post in desktop-devel), to be later implemented if the
> > response is positive.
>
> And as has been mentioned on that thread, this is "design by
> committee", which is not how it works (or should work). Yes, sometimes
> controversial changes are reversed at a later point, and a user vote
> would almost certainly have prevented the controversial change in the
> first place, but it would also prevent those controversial changes
> that turned out right - in particular, neither GNOME 2 nor GNOME 3
> would have happened in the first place.
>
>
> > I think your suggestion of a "feature" branch can be a worthy compromise, though.
>
> Except that Bastien is right - while on a branch, a feature will
> hardly be tested by anyone than other core developers of the same
> module. It's unfortunate, but "real" users generally only get to test
> a new feature once it appears in their distro (read: some time after
> the feature appears in a stable GNOME release).

Another option is to use the extension system for that. But I am not
sure that will get us a lot more testers either without active
promotion.
So yeah I agree the only way to get real users to test it is to merge it.