Communication between developers and users

[Stephan Binner]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 18:07, Tom Chance wrote:

> Read this bug report, for example: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76915
> Lots of opinions are raised, and then the users are shut out of discussion.

This is no bug report. And users were not shut out, I just pointed to the 
right location to discuss this. There is no sense that fans gather in some
hidden corner to emphasize themselves how great an application is without
ever encountering the people with other opinions and preferences.

> 2) A large architecutral change is discussed.
> This is a long-term decision with major implications, and yet to an even
> greater extent than app changes, users have very little input.

I wouldn't expect much end-user input for architectural-only changes. Which
user knows more than one or two and base his opinion on something other than
whatever his favorite application happens to use.

Bye,
   Steve