On Tuesday 24 May 2011 10:20:05 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag 24 Mai 2011, 00:09:32 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
> > > > The current workflow seriously needs to be fixed.
> > > 
> > > true or not, not really on-topic here, we (as in the marketing team)
> > > won't be fixing it ;-)
> > 
> > PS feel free to kick adrian in the balls if you have issues, but if you
> > take that litterally I recommend you kick hard to make sure he can't come
> > after you ;-)
> 
> In this case it will be me and others coming after you, believe me.

sweet :D

> Is
> that btw the kind of speach and behaviour you're appreciating here in
> the marketing group, smiley or not?

Ok, it is a joke, maybe a weird one... Appologies, I'll try and better my life 
& watch my language.

> > Serious, workflow things need fixing indeed, but what he needs is
> > CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS. Not of the type "fix it" or even "this and this
> > doesn't make sense" but "this works like this now. It makes more sense
> > if it would work like this. See a mock up I made".
> 
> Very true. As being a developer I can tell you that people stepping up with
> the message "Your software would be great if feature ABC would be there and
> I can tell you how to do it but will not do it!" are more demotivating to
> fix something than you would expect.
> 
> > The coding doesn't take much time
> 
> Nice dreams of marketing ;-)

Well, I'm exaggerating, I know the coding takes serious time...

> > - it is the thinking about what the best solution is that takes a lot
> > of time. And that exactly is what people could help with if they
> > were willing to put in a little more thought.
> 
> Hmm, I disagree, sorry to contradict. Better do what the FOSS world
> moves forever: Write patches, either on code or marketing material,
> does not matter. Convert ideas to code or texts or artwork, whatever, but
> do not post them purely on MLs hoping that others will pick up. People who
> really do things usually have enough ideas of what they want to do. They
> never wait for others posting an idea to make them doing something.

Of course. But notice most ppl here really are no coders :D

From most devs I talk to I often hear that thinking about workflow, about UI, 
can take a lot of time. Especially if you want to get it really right, and 
Adrian is a perfectionist as I've heard... So a concrete suggestion for a 
workflow improvement is very valuable esp compared to a vague "make it more 
logical" kind of statement... Especially considering what might be logical to 
a developer is not to a packager or an user :D

> regards,
> 
> Klaas

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