Guys,
As a developer who values user-friendliness above all else, but also
someone who's been in contact with open-source developers a lot, I
must say this:
As for Johannes, I'd just like to say your opinion stinks. While
you're perfectly entitled to hold such an opinion, those kinds of
attitudes are the reason that open source software often has such poor
usability and take-up within the broader community.
Let's not turn this into an argument.
There are basically two kinds of people — people of the first kind
think the users have a 100% right to be dumb and to be irritated about
software bugs, and to demand commercial quality and support from all
kinds of software. Second group of people want their software to
appeal to people who are “smart enough” to use it, who are “nice
enough” to the open-source community, etc.
I once tried to understand the source of this difference, and it seems
like it lies in the area of the basic sources of satisfaction.
Anyway, we won't ever convince each other, so let's just not try.
Johannes' opinion is just as good as ours, and there are people who
will certainly accept it and not accept ours, and there are people who
will not accept it no matter what. No need for an argument in any case.
And lastly, sorry for pointing this out, but I feel this is important
for a healthy communication: Personally, I would prefer people to not
be offended here. And people will be less likely to get offended if
we'd be saying “I don't share your opinion” instead of “your opinion
stinks”. I'd prefer us to get emotional about new releases of GitX
rather than about opinion arguments. Hope you would find this point of
view appealing too.
PS: I think I've sent a patch that allows commit message editing into
this group a few weeks ago, and got no replies. Since this fits into
the topic of the future of GitX, did anyone receive it?
Andrey.
