Feature Creep (in a nutshell)

[Milot Shala]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mathias Panzenböck <
grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 02/09/2010 08:42 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> > G'day,
> >
> > Seb found this gem here, I think it should become required reading for
> > all Amarok devs:
> >
> >
> > http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/02/02/removing-features/
> >
>
> Oh and then there is the 80-20 rule:
> 80% of the features of an "usual" application are only needed in 20% of the
> cases. So the 20% that are used 80% of the time should be easily
> accessible, the
> rest should be in some "advanced" GUI (advanced-settings, -toolbar,
> -plasmoids).
>
> What these 20%/80% are can be detected by usage data.
>
>        -panzi
>

I agree with you.



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Milot Shala, Software Engineer
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