Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:03:27 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org" <svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org>, "svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org" <svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, "src-committers@FreeBSD.org" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn: head/usr.sbin/mergemaster Message-ID: <B24B42CC-AC75-47B3-801D-198AAC2F8D09@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <495F12FE.8080204@FreeBSD.org> References: <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> <495DB15B.8040908@FreeBSD.org> <495DB9B6.4030801@FreeBSD.org> <495DC5AF.3050908@FreeBSD.org> <495E91F8.3010706@FreeBSD.org> <18782.37537.775290.682466@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <495E9E4B.8030905@FreeBSD.org> <495F12FE.8080204@FreeBSD.org>
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On Jan 2, 2009, at 23:25, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> 1. Past experience indicates that your average _developer_ is not
>> very
>> good at estimating what the average _user_ will want as the default.
>
> This statement is pretty much self-contradictory. You are saying
> that average developer is very bad at estimating which behavior
> should be the default, yet you ("average developer") is vetoing
> features that users (myself and others) report to be very useful.
It's not to say that doug is claiming that developers are incompetent
when determining user needs. Users are a very complex group and that
is partly why test engineers and quality engineers exist; to help
provide another pov on how software could be defined for more
audiences' benefit.
Just some food for thought from my perspective..
-Garrett
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