Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] How non-programmers use documentation.
From: Kevin Conder (kconder_AT_interaccess.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 18:28:16 EEST
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Alexander Ehlert wrote:
> > >16. Non-programmers that I talked to have never sent a bug report or a
> > >feature request to a software company. The idea of sending one directly to
> > >a programmer or a technical writer was a completely foreign concept.
>
> I consider this a bad attitude in open source land.
This troubled me also. If there's one behavior I wish I could
change, it would be this.
Perhaps we could make it a condition of usage... "you may use this
program free-of-charge but we'd like bug reports". Maybe we could make it
easier to send bug reports by including a way to do it from the
application itself. Just some ideas I had...
=== Kevin Conder, kevin_AT_kevindumpscore.com
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