On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM, andres <[email protected]>wrote:
> Stef, Doru: > first of all I was *asking if* such a model exists, not > demanding one. Having just entered the Pharo world I wanted to know how you > guys handle the feature requests. I see now. > > On the other hand if you really want to discuss the question of "who has > the rights for asking for X" in the open source model I'm open, but just to > be sure I will first ask: Is it ok to open such a thread? Or should I first > contribute to Pharo before asking? > Asking is a form of contribution and is important because this is what creates a community and how we can learn. It enables communication and this is good. And your question is a valuable question. (well, unless people keep asking over and over the same question without searching in the mailing-list archive....) And actually the best answer I think is: if you want feature X, you have two ways to get it: A/ pay someone for doing it B/ do it yourself and share so other people may help you Today in Pharo the most used way is B (and I think this is true for most open source project). But may be you have (lot of) money :) So if you think something like UserVoice may sounds good, just try it and share. Darwinism will tell whether it is a good idea or not. Honestly I'm curious about what ideas can people put in a voting system and what they can vote on. Maybe newcomers won't be shy to vote (comparing to sending an email). Now whether the ideas will be implemented is just a matter of choice between A and B. Cheers, Laurent > Andrés > > Tudor Girba escribió: > > +1. >> >> Doru >> >> >> On 7 Dec 2010, at 12:39, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >> Hi andres >>> >>>> Thanks Mariano! I was looking for something more "formal", to let user's >>>> vote for features and a commitment of the dev team to include N of the most >>>> voted per release (of course N depends on the release cycle and the feature >>>> complexity). >>>> >>> Well well well >>> When people are not able to pay 10 Euros for pharo (we did a poll and got >>> 5 positive answers) why would they have the right to vote for something that >>> we would be forced to do? This is an interesting question, no? >>> >>> We are not in the consumer model here. We (the people around pharo core) >>> are fixing the infrastructure so that everybody benefit from it, we can be >>> influenced >>> but not much. The only influence we deeply understand is >>> ***Contributions*** with either videos, pdf, ads, promotion actions or ST >>> code. >>> >>> So if you want something to happen for real in pharo then you should >>> consider how you can make this happens. >>> >>> Stef >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?" >> >> >> >> >
