Well said Martin. Its also completely contrary to the ethos this project has had to date, and completely kills the user becomes tester becomes coder type of evolution that we've got several devs through.


On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 13:54 -0300, Gez wrote:
> I'm perfectly fine with that. I know it's a meritocracy and
> people who contribute the most is the people who will make the
> decisions about what is done, how it is done, etc.

I'm not fine with that at all. It's a disrespectful idea.

It says there are two great classes. Developers and users. Which is such
a false dichotomy it hard to start at any one place.

A user that gives me $10k to develop inkscape features is not just a
user.
A user that contributes user experience testing is not just a user.
A user who contributes bug reporting or triage is not just user.
A user who argues respectively for certain workflows is not just a user.

Basically as soon as a user open her mouth, she is no longer a user. She
is a contributor. And should be respected as such. Asking contributors
to shut up as policy is rejecting contribution as bad as rejecting code
because I didn't write it.

Martin,


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