On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The target audiences are different. If you are driving users to a different site than the package maintainers... and allowing them to comment...you are going to cause a communication gap. A driveby commenting and rating system among users where the maintainers are not encouraged to also interact with...does nothing to get that feedback to the people who are doing the work. Nor does it help those of us doing the work figure out which of our users are worth encouraging to take the next step and start helping. Make the same site expose specific functionality for users, and contributors. There's really no reason I should not be able to use the exact same website to see user comments on my packages...and do the packagedb interactions which lets me elevate other contributors/users as co-maintainers on those very same packages. If i have to go to yet another website to see what users are saying about my packages, I will most likely end up forgetting to do it...even though I actually care. Focusing an interface strickly for users...doesn't help us inteact with users in a way that actually matters. Users talking among themselves does not lead to better package quality nor additional contributor manpower. If you want to make a better package browsing interface...great...do it as an extension to the SAME website that I have to already interact with to do my ownership/watching packagedb manipulation as a contributor. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
