On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:20:41PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Case C: > - User(s) find somethiing they dislike about Fedora's Gnoem desktop > - User complains to fedora-devel-list/fedora-list/bugzilla.redhat.com/... > - Fedora maintainer sees many many complaints about feature and takes > issue upstream or to application developer. (maintainer != developer in > some (most?) cases) > - Fedora maintainer or developer act as aggregate voice of userbase to > Gnome and pushes to get feature corrected upstream. > - As last resort Fedora maintainer creates patch or takes stance and > provides quantitave reasoning as to why they are sticking w/ feature > that lots dislike > > End result? Community and target users do see that maintainers care and > listen and try for the end user's best interest. Exactly THIS is the model I'm talking about and that I would want to see from any distro that cares about their user base. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@xxxxxxxxxx -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
