Dne 24. 10. 19 v 14:09 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a): > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:45 AM Lukas Ruzicka <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Are you proposing to _do_ those things, or proposing that > someone else > oughta? > > > This is an unfair statement! > > I thought Fedora is a community of people. In the community, we have > programmers, visionaries, idealists, testers, graphics ... and we > also have users, that only know > if they like or dislike something, if the want or don'ŧ want to > use the product somehow. Not everybody > is a good programmer or a software designer, so they cannot go and > make it betterby themselves, > but they can still give valid ideas. And it may be good to hear > their voice, because they may have > good ideas, too. > > > There's a very large difference between feedback like "I think the > user experience is suboptimal here, for this reason" and "I don't like > the entire design, you should scrap it and start over". > > In the first case, it's possible to incorporate that into an existing > project if the benefits justify the investment. In the latter case, it > requires a *substantial* reinvestment in work while simultaneously > demoralizing and disrespecting the people who have been working on it. > It's a fundamental difference between constructive and destructive > criticism. > > By all means, if there are user experience problems, highlight those. > Just don't draw the conclusion that the whole system is unsalvageable. > Let the team that's working on it figure out if there's a way to fix > the UX or if it truly does mean that a structural flaw exists in the > design. The Modularity Team is reading these threads and is keeping > notes on all of the legitimate issues raised. As of right now, we > don't feel that the situation is unrecoverable. > > Please keep your suggestions constructive. Tell us where we are > falling short. We are listening. We're just not ready to throw away > years of work because it isn't perfect yet. If we did that every time, > we'd never get anywhere. We wouldn't have taken projects like systemd, > KDE 4, NetworkManager, and GNOME 3 from their rocky starts to where > they are now. All of those examples were hard-fought changes that > brought considerable instability to Fedora when they initially landed > and now are cornerstones of the Fedora story.
Sometimes it would be enough if default recommendations were reconsidered. One of my suggestions [1] is waiting to be accepted since mid of April. I am not sure if modularity team really listen. Vít [1] https://pagure.io/modularity/issue/142
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