> Please be careful about how you set requirements for things > like Daily Dose, or anything in the tools site, really. The > developers like Pasi are volunteers who are providing a great > service at no cost. > Where did resumes come up? Very often, people who volunteer to do something, don't really do it for free, but in order to gain useful experience that they can put on their resume and use to get better (or more interesting) jobs in the future. Running a usability test along the lines that Jakob Nielsen has written about, is the kind of thing that would look good on a web developer's resume. > FWIW, I don't think a big volunteer test would have added any > value for a feature like this. I agree, and that is why I provided the URL to an article by someone who has done experiments and discovered that you get most of the value by doing a SMALL usability test with 5 users, then fix up all their issues, and repeat again with 5 more users. When you get to the point of diminishing returns, stop repeating. If you consider people's time to be a cost regardless of whether money changes hands, then you get the maximum cost/benefit ratio by doing this rather than just flinging it out to the community. > And even if it did, do we have > a right to require Pasi to do something like that, given that > it would consume a lot of his time, delay the introduction of > the new version to the entire community, etc? Nope, we would have no right to require that anybody implement a good idea or follow best practice. But given the number of messages to the list suggesting changes and fixes, I thought it was reasonable to point out that there is a better way, and it is documented here <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html> and it is not expensive to do either in money terms or in terms of time spent. > Finally, as someone else noted, we have a tool development > day coming up -- please join and add the features you need! If I were able to travel to Vancouver, I would do so. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf