On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:40 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I think having more "consumer" users for gEDA, which do not want to > > make any contributions, only asking stupid questions and complain > > about some rough edges, would be no benefit for the gEDA project. > > As a developer, I disagree. Even stupid questions and comments can > tell us where we need to address usability. The big benefit of having > a big "consumer" user base is that more people means more potential > developers, and/or more financial support for our developers. That > means more work *on* geda, which means better tools for all of us. > > The trick, however, is figuring out how to turn those complainers into > *constructive* complainers.
Meine Deutsch ist nicht so gut... If anyone would care to summarise the stupid complaints / questions in that thread, I'd appreciate it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
