[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

[Tux99]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> It's not my fear that they are hiding, I know they are very busy and
> lately I had a discussion on the cooker list where I was told with
> very good reasoning that developpers are too occupied with their work
> to waste their time reading user forums and they do not want to be
> bothered by direct contact with users.  As I said there were very good
> reasons given and I understand that.

I can perfectly understand the reasons why that's the case when the 
developers are full-time employees and do the work as a job, but this 
shouldn't and mustn't be the case in a non-profit community project 
where everyone is in it for the fun.

In this scenario devs are normally users themselves too, and even for 
their own satisfaction it should be natural that they at least 
occasionally check user reactions to what they develop, by spending some 
time on forums (at least reading through them).

In every successfull non-profit community FOSS project that I have seen 
that's the case, the devs are users themselves and do partecipate at 
least a bit in the forums.