From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>* Non-developers hesitate to post to devel lists because they repeatedly
>have been instructed not to post end-user feedback to devel lists.
>
>
When they posted end user queries or send in rants that arent Fedora
development specific.
Heh... How is a user supposed to know ahead of time which problem
description is going to be called a rant by the developers and
which is going to result in some development to fix it?
Elliot sent out that monetary support question recently. You are
describing another way that the Fedora projects can be materially
assisted by individuals. While you cannot get a tax write off for
donated hours (you didn't get paid so no income exists to be deducted
against) figuring out how to digest the lists into something really
simple for the developers to follow might be a good idea. And if
you can manage to thread the messages over a period of time you
are most of the way to developing the digests. One or two lines
of digest text per message thread that looks like something other
than idle bantering should be enough to keep the developers aware
of the buzz on the list. And if you include the message IDs for
the messages, in a clickable format, the developers can read the
more interesting and well put messages (if you score them in any
way) in this thread or one like it.
It does seem that for most on this list (mea culpa) the proposition
is all take and little or no give. That does seem unbalanced, bad
karmic practice, and unfair when you stand back far enough and look
at the whole picture.
{^_^}
