On 22/02/2011 12:58, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
What slows things down (IMHO) it the community whining about how (a) it was all done in secret, (b) how they haven't released it publicly, (c) how there's no public repos, (d) how it's not integrated to bugs.meego.com.... blah blah blah.
Wow. So the problem is the community whining, not the fact that all those things happened?
If the community is such a valuable part of shipping products on time... where is the community's tablet UX?
You're taking things to extremes now just to make a silly point. Designing a whole product or a whole UX from scratch is a hard job, and clearly it would be hard for a community to come up with a working tablet UX on its own.
But that doesn't mean that community input is useless, and doesn't mean that designers cannot make their initial plans public and allow the community to comment on them. This isn't design by committee, and the designers don't have to do every little thing the community says, but valuable feedback.
I don't know. I thought MeeGo was supposed to be about open development, not just open source. If it isn't, then we might as well just join Android or similar communities, where the source is published but development is done in secret, with "big reveals" for each new version or UX.
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