Hi Matt, On 10 Nov 23, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Once you've read the details below, please respond with an acknowledgement and > let me know if you can participate. The expected time investment is on the > order of a couple of hours over the next couple of weeks.
I'll come up with a response. Regards, Amit > The Technical Board recently began a new program to respond to top voted > topics > on Ubuntu Brainstorm: > > http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/11/03/weathering-the-ubuntu-brainstorm/ > > Our goal is to improve our responsiveness to the questions, concerns and > suggestions we receive from the user community. Note that this does NOT mean > that we will commit to following the suggestions, but we will evaluate and > respond to them. By explaining what we will (or won't) do and why, we will > show that we are paying attention and trying to make good decisions on behalf > of our users. > > The way the program works is that the Technical Board identifies people within > the Ubuntu project who are knowledgeable in the specific topics proposed in > Brainstorm, and asks each of them to write a short response to one topic. > > This is why I'm writing to you now. :-) > > One of the most popular topics in brainstorm at present is power management: > > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24782/ > > This is obviously a complex topic, but an important one to our community and > deserving of a thoughtful response. > > Since you are well versed in this area, we would appreciate if you could spend > a short time reading the Brainstorm content about it and writing a few > paragraphs. You don't need to have all the answers, and I encourage you to > ask > for input from others who might have a view on the issue. This can be in the > form of a blog post, an email, or any other suitable format. It shouldn't > take > more than an hour or two to complete. > > Our goal is to have everything ready for publication by the 8th of December. > Can you confirm that you're willing and able to help with this? > > You can formulate your response as you see fit, but make sure that the tone is > sympathetic. Many of the comments in Brainstorm take the form of demands or > complaints: just treat these as if they were questions, and answer them > politely. Try to listen to the *need* behind the suggestion, not just the > suggestion itself, and connect with your audience by telling a story about it. > > Here are some example formulas which might be helpful to you: > > * "It sounds like the problem described here is X. We address that in Ubuntu > today by doing A, B and C. Maybe that's not working for everyone because > of Y. We could improve this by doing Z." > > * "I would love to see a new feature like that in Ubuntu. It's consistent > with the way other parts of Ubuntu work, and seems genuinely useful. > We're busy with some higher priority projects at the moment like X, but > if someone is interested in writing a patch for this, I will help them > get it into Ubuntu and upstream." > > * "This is a really hard problem without an easy solution. It's complex > because of X, Y and Z. It will take some time for this to be completely > solved, but here are a few projects we're working on which will make things > better, bit by bit." > > * "That's an easy fix. I've written a patch and uploaded it to Natty. It > will be in the 11.04 release!" > > * "That's a great idea, and we already thought of it! Here's the blueprint, > and here's how you can follow along as this gets implemented in Natty." > > * "I passed on your suggestion to the upstream developer of the software, and > we had a conversation about it. Here's what we decided." > > * "This seems like a genuine problem, but I'm not sure that's the right > solution, because of X and Y. I asked our usability expert Jill about > this, and here's what she suggested." > > * "I didn't understand what the problem was here, so I had a conversation on > IRC with Jamie, who submitted this topic to Brainstorm to understand > better. > Here's how it went: > > [...] > > In the end, we both decided that the best course of action is X." > > If you have any further questions about what is expected here, please let me > know. > > -- > - mdz -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amit Kucheria, Kernel Engineer || [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
