In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Bucksch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> > Could you elaborate on what you mean when you refer to "users" and
> > "testers"?
>
> I think, I did already in this thread, not?
While I was typing the question, yes. Asynchronous discussion...
> If you file mostly useful bugs, you are a tester. If you ask questions
> answered in the release-notes, you are a user.
Actually, both of those are *users*, but the quality of their feedback
is different. For the sake of clarity, it would be better to not equate
"users who don't read the docs" with all users.
> I say that because a lot of users go to the homepage, search for the
> word "download", click on it, search for the link to the binary, without
> reading any text, download and run it. Even if they read "for testers
> only", they may think, "Yes, I want to try it out.". Then, some of them
> rant on the next forum they find, how crappy the stuff is. That's the
> user group you encourage with a download link on the homepage. Frankly,
> I don't even want these users for Beonex, so why mozilla.org would want
> them?
I see your point. May be some sort of minimal reading comprehension test
is needed.
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Henri Sivonen
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