Hi Danishka, On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Danishka Navin <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any mechanism to give feedback on Gnome 3? > > Do we have a such plan? > To get user feedback and check whether Gnome 3 is success or not? > > Any chance of running a survey.
The usual feedback mechanisms are available, such as mailing lists (the GNOME Shell mailing list has been a particularly popular place for feedback) and Bugzilla. Plus there are other more informal mechanisms, such as comments on blog posts. The marketing team has also been involved in collecting the feedback they have seen and have been helping to track issues that have been raised so that they get fixed [1]. We'll be announcing the results of that process when GNOME 3.2 is released. Additional feedback exercises would be a great thing to do, in my opinion, particularly as a way for people to make suggestions. If we were to do that, I think the most important thing would be to ensure that the results of the feedback are actually acted on - it shouldn't be an empty gesture. So, the first step would be to speak to maintainers, developers and designers and get them involved. That way they could respond to the most popular suggestions, either by implementing them or by publicly explaining what the situation is with them. I don't think that a survey would be the best way to determine whether GNOME 3 has been a success, however. It would be impossible to conduct an accurate satisfaction survey on GNOME with the resources at our disposal, and a satisfaction survey wouldn't provide us with guidance on how to improve GNOME anyway (that requires other forms of research such as user testing). Best, Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointOne/Features/FixAnnoyingThings -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
