Re: preparing to market GNOME 3.2

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

So would these bugs be considered as annoying?

1. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647441 "alt key for 
shutdown isn't usable on tablets" - but I think a lot of people have 
complained about it on IRC, people with only one hand could also find 
this a real drag (then they need to log off and then shutdown which is a 
lot less convenient, at least in perception).

2. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647828
"screen: no option 'never'" which the logic implied goes against the one 
above: here we say we should encourage people to save energy, while 
suspend by default will use some energy to keep the system status.

In fact from looking at the fedora test mailing list I'm sure from the 
top of my head I could come up with a lot more (I just picked the ones 
that annoy ME - selfish isn't it?). So the real question is how do we 
draw the limit? Who gets to pick what's annoying and what's not?

Thanks.

Fred



On 05/06/2011 05:32 PM, Allan Day wrote:
> Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > According to http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne Monday will mark the
> > end of the feature proposal&  discussion period for the 3.1.x
> > development series.  Once we know what sorts of improvements are going
> > to be in 3.2
>
> We have a good idea of what's going to be worked on. Whether it'll be
> ready in time is another question of course. ;)
>
> > (touchscreen support, for instance?),
>
> Unlikely, by the looks of the feature page [1]. We're also waiting on
> other parts of the stack, if my limited understanding is correct.
>
> > we can figure out
> > what's most salient and who needs to be told about those enhancements,
> > and start prepping our marketing plan.
>
> One thing that occurs to me - it would be nice to be tracking the small
> fixes and polish that are happening. It is easy to forget these changes,
> but they will be a big part of 3.2. It would be nice to have examples
> and even metrics to talk about at release time.
>
> There is a role for marketing here. The release team have included 'Fix
> Annoying Things' [2] as one of the 3.2 features. This is partly an
> exercise in PR, I believe. The ambition is to track and fix annoying
> (and fixable ;) ) issues have been brought up in reviews and user
> feedback so that, when 3.2 is released, we can say 'we fixed the
> annoying things you mentioned last time around'.
>
> If anybody has been following the reviews and knows of issues that have
> been brought up, please add them to the page [2].
>
> > We won't need as huge an effort as we had for 3.0, but we'll still be
> > happier if we start light planning early.  Five months away....
>
> Allan
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/Tablets
> [2] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/FixAnnoyingThings