-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/12 10:01, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > just a quick example of what discussing feature requests sometimes > looks like from a developer's point of view: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311609 > > Much of what that person writes is incomprehensible to me, but if > I explain in detail why that idea is not going to be implemented by > me, and the sentence > > "Instead, I believe it is just laziness or lack of imagination." > > appears in the reply, then it's pretty clear to me what he means. > This is one of the moments when I not only re-evaluate how much > time I'm willing to spend on discussions at bugs.kde.org, but also > ask myself for a second why I work on free software at all, rather > than spending more time on playing games, reading books, and other > things that normal people do. > I can understand exactly what you mean - but then I'm not a betting woman, but I'd put my shirt on that not being a Brainstorm bug report. It has none of the attributes I'd expect.
You need to be able to assess the difference between random wish reports and thought-out and assessed Brainstorm reports. We are working on this. I believe a flag has been created to indicate when you are seeing a Brainstorm report. Give us a few more days until Moult has a little time to try implementing it. @Moult: can you ping us when you have an example ready? Then any needed improvements can be discussed. > Please note: I know that more than 99.5% of our users are awesome > people, and I can understand that they are disappointed if they > think that a feature request of theirs does not get the attention > that it deserves. I'm just trying to show you that this is only one > part of the story, and that discussing feature requests can also > involve a huge amount of frustration on the developer side. If I > had just ignored the report I quoted above, it would not have > caused any harm at all. But then this is another reason why KDE > Brainstorm makes so much sense - if the maintainer does not have to > deal alone with random ideas from people who have zero knowledge > about technical details, then this is certainly an improvement. We believe that it truly will make life easier and more pleasant for developers and more satisfying for users. Let's give this a try and go from there. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDLUUUACgkQj93fyh4cnBe8tgCeOMXYpKW5Y7Y7sc2Xx2UI9Nv2 Z9IAn1uuo6wgoQ0eHJIFoSoBLwh/Wfqr =HplZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
