Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > My main point is -- and always was -- that I'd like people to realise how > > much it depends on _them_ if (and when) their wishes come true. > > Dscho, that's just not fair. ... > Complain about it when somebody asks for something *stupid*. Explain why > it would be wrong to do something like that. But don't complain about > people having wish-lists, even if those people may not work on them. > > Not everybody is a "doer". It's important to get input from people who are > just plain users, or hope to be. I agree with both of you. My understanding of Dscho's original comment was that people weren't saying *what* specifically their wish-list was, which means we have no hope as a community of meeting their requests. Carl and Andy both had submitted a long list of very specific issues that they had with Git. The result of those lists being posted was a number of people contributed improvements that lead us to 1.5. Nobody can argue with that. But just saying "MY GOD FIX THE UI" is not a wishlist item (yes, that was a real survey answer). It provides the community no chance to understand what parts of the UI we need to work on, and what parts the end-user is OK with or just hasn't even tried to use. -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
