Christopher Schmidt kirjoitti: > attitude is everything when communicating with > a mailing list Shouldn't that also concern developers?
I am asking this because I've been noticing that in OL-users list there are time to time so hostile responses to the users ideas that for example I haven't ever experienced such in the Geoserver users list. I think that all the users throwing ideas in the list are just trying to make things better, not to question developers competence or ability to do their work. Yeah, it easily happens that you come up with a superb idea and share it in the list without thinking how to put it in there or reconsidering how superb it really is. But one shouldn't take it as an insult or yelling. In my opinion, everyone should have one vote, regardless of whether you are a developer or an user, to vote for things and features you like. After all, it isn't just developers who are making open source (software) possible. What comes to the graphical design, I think it would be a great idea to make availabe few libraries of those too, that is, if someone can provide them as an open source. I do understand that the idea behind the core of OL is not to be a nice GUI but rather a "shell" that connects different GI sources together and make them available for the potential users. You can also switch to MapFish (www.mapfish.org) if you demand more flexible GUI and still benefit from the OpenLayers library with a help of the Extjs GUI library. My two cents, - mika - _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
