On 21 June 2012 12:59, Monty Montgomery <xiphmont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In fact it kills the motivation of developers who are >> putting sizable parts of their life into creating, maintaining and >> improving GIMP. When you kill motivation in volunteer-driven project, >> you are not just destroying someones hobby - the project will >> eventually stagnate, wither and die. > > Oh for fuck's sake. > > I was happy to hold my tongue until this. The developers are > *victims* of users being unhappy with a design decision? Ok, that part of my post must not have come across the way I intended at all. At all. My intent was to say that a volunteer project is driven mostly by the motivation of the contributors, and that the feedback from users can be a major driver in this. I believe that focusing on the things that can be improved is usually more beneficial to motivation than to get stuck in particular decisions that have been made (in the best of intents). It is great that people care, I just would like to see that energy have a more positive outlet. I realize now that my statement above contributed negatively, not positively. I apologize for that. I should have just said: Please write a description of your typical workflow (as a whole) when making an argument. Then we can find the things that can be improved together. And hopefully someone will be motivated to pick that up. -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
