El lun, 11-05-2015 a las 13:10 +0200, Tobias Ellinghaus escribió:
(*) ... while being fully aware that I have no say in that. I am a firm believer that developers should have all the power in free software and pure users have the obligation to keep their mouth shut. People have to earn their right to vote. This is not a democracy. There, I did it again and made myself unpopular. :)
As a user, 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 like to think that developers know what they're doing, so I trust them. However, computer programmers aren't always the most appropriate persons to decide on usability, interfaces and workflows that users will have to deal with, and they make mistakes. According to you, we should stfu even if you're doing a crappy job that is doomed to fail. That doesn't sound very convenient or desirable for any healthy software project.
That's why I'm proposing to create a space where developers ask actual users about what is needed or what is important. In part, to spare developers the job of receiving a bulk of requests from any single user out there and help them finding out what are the real needs in the program. The experience of users should be a valuable asset for the project. If you plan to ignore what users have to say about what's useful, your program will suck.
That being said, I don't think it's a "right" users have to demand things to developers. It should be a collaboration, not people shoving their own stuff into others throats.
Gez.