On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:06:45 +0200, Ralf wrote: > I consider users (esp. bug reporters) not to be "the dumb pigs eating > the hog wash they get for free", or "clueless comsumer masses" aborbing > anything they don't pay for with money, but them to be the foundation of > your work and them to be valuable business partners, paying in > immaterial payment (e.g. feedback, such as bug reports). That's an idealistic [over-simplified] point of view which I don't want to agree with. There is no clear relationship, such as a seller and a purchaser (and the "customer is king" guideline doesn't apply), since the person who produces the packages may be the one to _give_ more than he _gets_ in return by the users. Or vice versa. All that's clear to me is that the packager fills the role of a "provider", providing packaging services, and certain feedback from some package users may help with improving the quality of the provided product. In turn the provider ought to have interest in such an improvement and in boosting the relationship with the package users. Preferably, users with strong interest in a particular Fedora package sign up at the Fedora Account System, so they can subscribe to a package's watchbugzilla and watchcommit channels. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
