BTW, it's probably a cultural thing, but my brain just shuts down whenever someone posts a usability scenario on the list. Whoever instituted them probably read a USA usability text-book and tried to ape it. For the original author, the writing style is neutral and lets him focus on the use-cases. For me, the user names chosen scream USA (actually 1970' WASP USA), as does the "casual" use of surnames. So I delete messages before I get real angry about Fedora being presented as an effort to please a very small and limited userbase. Can we have use-cases that reflect the diversity on Fedora forums and lists? Or even stop the whole ridiculous synthetic use-case writing and not write about ourselves in the third person like Julius Caesar? In my experience this stuff can be written for two reasons: A. someone conducted an actual usability test campaign, collected a lot of user feedback, and tries to sum them up in a few use-cases to have a short work document. This is the productive synthetic use-case writing scenario. Use-cases reflect reality, not the writer bias, who is just summing up hard data. B. someone didn't have the resources to conduct a usability campaign, but read the kind of document produced in A. He decides it can't be so hard to write use-cases and wipes up a synthetic "professional" use-case list. The problem is without the user feedback data these synthetic use cases are totally removed from reality, the weird writing style actually accentuates the writer bias, while hiding it's all actually just one guy's opinion. What's worse when these use-cases clash with actual user feedback the user feedback is rejected as not being properly formalized when in reality the use-case writers are just self-satisfied with subjective users that reflect their own opinions. This is the not-productive synthetic use-case writing scenario, and I'd rather we avoided it. Or at least be honest and not disguise some people objectives are actual use-cases. Somehow the naming makes me suspect we're in case B. In case A, enough reality always creep-up in the use-case they're not a textbook caricature. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
