Hi all, Every time we release a new major version of GNOME, I have this habit of googling in search of comments, reviews and discussions about our new release. In general, I find:
* User comments and blog posts about specific changes and new features * Distro developer opinions about how we should or shouldn't handle certain issues * Discussions in mailing lists and web forums about the new release In the middle of all the (usual and useless) noise, it's very common to see things like: * "I don't understand why bug X is not fixed since release Y" * "Why do they keep this crappy way of doing X?" * "I really miss Z in GNOME" And a big part of this feedback happens inside the distro communities. Well, it's a known fact that end-users don't use "GNOME". What they see/perceive is "Ubuntu", "Fedora", "Debian", "OpenSuse", "Mandriva", and so on. Therefore, most of the real end-user feedback happens in the distro scope and I have this feeling that we're not really aware about the whole mass of feedback that happens out there. So, I think we should talk with our distributors in order to find efficient, lightweight and smart ways of exposing/transfering this user feedback from distros to GNOME. Also, we could use this opportunity to get feedback from distro developers as well. I have some ideas about how to make this happen but I'd like to know the opinion of you, marketing fellows, first. My first-step-plan is to (maybe) schedule an IRC meeting with members of GNOME Packaging Team and other people involved with the distro communities to discuss some ideas and know what they think. Comments? --lucasr -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
