> > I write open source software elsewhere, you write here. > Feedback like I sent has value too. Commercial closed > source software gets part of their ideas from users, and > no user need to implement them. I hope the open source > coding attitude changes, and much. > > I will pick up Kaffeine, but Ubuntu is missing the package. > I try compile it. > > Kaffeine authors could check my list in detail. Please do. > > Me-TV seems to only record the flag that subtitles exists, > not the subtitles itself. At least, xine cannot play them. > Only sending this to linux-dvb as I'm not signed up to the media list, and I'll probably get myself blacklisted from any future help by saying this ;) but... The thing is (and I know because I too am a developer, not an open source one but still a developer) most developers don't want unsolicited feedback on their code, in my experience especially not open source developers. They write code that they consider to fill their needs with, in their view, the perfect design / interface for what they wanted to write. Nobody likes to have their baby criticized, especially when they didn't ask for the feedback. They just opened sourced their code because it might be useful to someone else. In my experience providing constructive information about how a piece of software might be improved is very very difficult to do, usually you will get just flamed / ignored. And quite often the usual: "if it doesn't do what you want, code it yourself" response. Which in a lot of ways I can understand as a big list can end up taking the software in a direction that the developer has no interest in. Personally I try to be open to feedback and I try listen to external comments about things I write, but often I am not interested in providing a piece of software that is ideal for user X, I have my requirements and if it doesn't match their - well tough ;). It is not easy listening to requirements when they don't match your own. In future you might have more luck opening with an email asking if people want feedback, if they say yes then you will have more luck with your list being read / accepted. If they say no then you often just have to accept that a move on. In my line of work half the battle is getting to a point in the relationship with the "customer" (not always a real external customer) that they will accept suggestions. That is usually after spending a long time developing the relationship first, you cannot go in to the first meeting with a list saying: "here is where your existing stuff sucks" as nobody will listen. Hope this helps / prompts discussion - it isn't meant to annoy anyone, if I have upset you (e.g. anyone reading this email) then that wasn't my intention, please accept my apologies. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
