Needed?? The Suggestion Box??

[Nathan Olberding]

Not to suggest we couldn't make things better, but the times I've used
bugs.kde.org have all made me feel like this really isn't a big
problem. Sure, it could be better, and the issue may swell in the
future, but I just don't see what the big fuss is.


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:35:57 -0700, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9933
> 
> << I am not asking the OSS developers to implement every little thing 
> that's asked out there, I am asking them to simply take users into 
> account and get an idea of what the whole of their user base needs. >>
> 
> I don't know the answers, but I have seen the problem for a while.
> 
> As I see it the measure of excellence in software is how well it meets 
> the needs of the users.
> 
> AJS seems to feel that such a statement is "bitching on the Internet":
> 
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/
> 
> Monday, March 14, 2005
> 
> << so all you disgruntled users: scratch your itch. come up with some 
> sort of system that works for you and invite the developers to it. make 
> it inviting. make it worth our while and your while. you're the only 
> ones who know what you want. so hack the system to get it.>>
> 
> Well, according to classic behavioral psychology, what we need to do is 
> change the contingencies of reinforcement.  But, as I see it, the 
> current system has the developers reinforcing themselves.  I don't see 
> that paying developers, as has been suggested, is the answer.  In a way, 
> AJS is correct, a change of culture is what is needed.  I come from a 
> different culture -- the engineering culture rather than the hacker 
> culture -- and I find meeting the needs of the users by making a better 
> product to be reinforcing.
> 
> -- 
> JRT
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