Hello Celeste, Jonathan, Matt, Yes I cannot refuse mentoring or co-mentoring. As Boemann has mentioned I'm pushing a small user feedback module into Kexi (good news: for Kexi 2.4) [1]. It is an incremental work using my limited resources: at this step it is a fully automated feedback.
If user enables this feature, operating system name and version, Kexi, KDE version, regional settings and display parameters are transferred (in the background) to a server anonymously on every execution of Kexi. Public statistics shall be computed based on that. Optionally user can mark her account as unique what further helps in statistics. This step is aimed at minimizing the need for manual work. Why I invested into that area is first and foremost because users can be seen as participants in the development process. One of the ways to continue could be indeed to expand into directions you described. From the very beginning I planned to offer collecting the feedback data related to usability like frequency of and context of executed commands. I know most of that is all nothing new (some info and links: [2]), but integration within a native app and availability programming interfaces was not easily available before. Moreover, in my opinion the percentage users providing good feedback in open source is surprisingly small compared to the potential. Everything I have so far is only loosely related to Kexi specifics, so any application could eventually benefit. I will be grateful for professional advice on methods or guidelines of collecting the usability feedback, like building surveys. [1] http://kexi-project.org/pics/2.4/rc1/kexi-2.4-status-pane.png [2] http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Meetings/Fall_2011_meeting/Minutes#Idea:_User_feedback_module -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
