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On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:30:10 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer |
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<christel@g.o> wrote: |
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| What do you believe could make Gentoo more attractive |
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| to new users and to current users? |
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Something that's often missed in these discussions... The only serious |
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interaction between Gentoo and nearly all of our end users is through |
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the tree, package manager and related tools and our documentation. Most |
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of our users don't regularly read mailing lists, use IRC or the forums, |
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so the only thing they really see is what happens when they emerge |
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--sync and install things. |
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I'm not entirely sure how bugzilla fits into all this. I suspect that |
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it's nowhere near as widely used by end users as it could be. |
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Three things I can think of that can be drawn from this: |
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* GLEP 42 |
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* All the pretty pink unicorns in the world aren't going to make a |
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scrap of difference if the tree keeps breaking. |
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* If we're looking to increase the flow of end users -> super users -> |
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developers, perhaps we should focus more upon improving development |
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tools or development documentation. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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