On 09/03/10 01:12, Kevin C wrote: > 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.
Hey, I know that in a perfect world people would ask the devs for some obscure feature and the devs would happily go about implementing it, even though they're never going to use it themselves. But without any compensation you can't seriously expect people to act that way. Just looking at git itself, I see the same philosophy: If you've got an itch, scratch it yourself (and make sure you write a testcase). > It's easy to make software for yourself, however _if_ a project wants > to broaden it's appeal, then you need to step outside your own little > box and look around and accept that people have different needs than > your own. If that's what drives then I think it great! As I said, I've found it increasingly hard to care about users wishes when they completely diverged from my own. All I'm saying is that people who feel that way shouldn't back away from development but rather adopt a more selfish point of view, if that's what keeps them here. Hope I made myself understood ;) Greetings, Jojo -- Johannes Gilger <[email protected]> http://heipei.net GPG-Key: 0x42F6DE81 GPG-Fingerprint: BB49 F967 775E BB52 3A81 882C 58EE B178 42F6 DE81
