On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:08:34AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I don't think we should aim at the general user, because not only is > > that nebulous, it has all of those same problems. We should be more > > specific, but we should also choose a segment where those things aren't > > serious handicaps. > Remember that we not only need to attract users, we need to attract > contributors. Aiming to be a big fish in a small pond won't do that. I agree with the first part. I don't think the analogy helps very much, though. Are you suggesting that we should try to tackle the general desktop market with no particular focus at all? For the goal of attracting contributors, students, developers, and sysadmins seem like good target groups. As does the "maker" segment. Those collectively aren't a cohesive group with exactly the same needs, but the idea that people have been expressing that _all_ users really need a good solid all-around environment (rather than something über-specialized) answers that. I don't think we need to (or should) narrow the interface so much that it's _limited_ to these users (whatever that would look like), but we should specifically make sure we do testing with and outreach to these groups. And, for that matter, to existing contributors. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
