On Wednesday 09 January 2008 15:37:41 Matthew Cashmore wrote: > That's an interesting point actually should 'useability' be part of the > developer list or is that something that should be kept to the main list?
In my opinion, yes, absolutely - usability is a major part of any software system. Be it in terms of the most obvious form - the human user interface, or be it in terms of discussion of an API or even "just" the name of a thing. I could wax lyrical on this point, but I think I won't unless prompted and make 2 brief points instead:-) For example, I've been approached before at conferences about Kamaelia who've said "but this is all just concurrency - what are you doing that's new?" to which my reply has been "I'm trying to make it usable", which rather surprisingly to me surprises them. It'd probably surprise them more if I mentioned I was trying to expose the inherent fun in such systems too :-) As a result, usability of Kamaelia systems - be it the website, the documentation, the code, the approach itself, a subsystem, *is* something I view as inherently relevant. I don't think that differs for others. Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Snr Research Engineer, BBC Future Media Research & Innovation [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia.sf.net/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
