Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
The point of this discussion is that the vast majority of SeaMonkey users (other than that very small élite who do contribute) find out about feature changes far too late in the process to provide any useful input. If the developers want to know what end users think, they need to ask them before the code is carved in stone. "Do you use XXX always/sometimes/never"? "Would you like to be able to export YYY to ZZZ format?" "If we did away with the Forms Manager, would you care?" And so forth. As things stand now, the developers have to guess what end users do and think based on their own personal experience with the product and feedback from that very small élite. Mostly they make good choices, but it's a chancy proposition.
There is relatively new code in Core Gecko that makes these forms of questions actually askable, without needing to hunt down and stick a survey infront of our users.
It has many implications that we are not clear on yet, but be away we hope/will visit this thought when we can.
(Issues remain like "User Privacy" [Firefox recently changed/adjusted their privacy policy, how it would change for our users needs to be understood before we implement]; Actual "Where does the data go/who owns it", as well as exactly _what_ do we want data on, and how we view it/draw conclusions from it)
I surely will pen more details when an implementation is close to even being started :-)
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