Hello, I was a bit surprised when I read this part of the log of the last technical board meeting:
10:15 mdz_ mjg59: do you think there is any quantitative way we can assess whether it works well for most of our current users? 10:15 mjg59 mdz_: Not really, no 10:15 mdz_ I feel a bit doomed either way, not having much in the way of concrete data to work from 10:15 mvo mjg59: I got positive feedback about basic video playback on a i965 but I can not confirm that myself 10:16 mdz_ mvo: of the issues mjg59 has raised, can you tell us if they seem to be encountered frequently by users? 10:16 mjg59 Some feedback on how many people are actually using it would be helpful, but since we don't enable it by default on upgrades it's quite possible that most of the people following gutsy aren't running it 10:16 mdz_ mvo: do you get many bug reports about them? 10:18 mvo we get a fair number of reports, but not that many about video/glx apps it seems. but its difficult to tell if people just bear with it because its still pre-beta or because they not encounter issues What I make from this is that there is a substantial need for user feedback on new features that might be enabled by default on the next Ubuntu release. Yet it seems that no real effort was made to get this feedback aside from waiting for bugreports to flow in. Nevertheless a major decision was made (to enable compiz by default) based mostly on personal experience of the developers and a lack of bug reports which might or might not be because few users are using compiz. Now, there is a forum section devoted to developer <-> user interaction.[1] This would be a perfect example of something that could be posted there for feedback. I do realize this will never be a representative sample of the ubuntu user base, but you will get feedback from a sufficiently large group to allow you to make these kind of decisions. I must say I was a bit disappointed that this opportunity was not used. Cheers, Wouter [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=265 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
