On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Martin Owens 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.
All of your examples are examples of meritocracy. Users who contribute as much very nearly become part of the team.
Alex