[LAU] now online: video recording of Louigi Verona at Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne in November 2015

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Louigi Verona wrote:

> Last week Nils posted to the list, but apparently it has been filtered out,
> although I do see it in list archives.
> 
> We decided to re-post it to the mailing list for those of you (or perhaps even
> all of you) who missed it.

Got it, but at the time some parts were missing. They all seem to be there 
now.

Interesting points in the last one about linux sw and developers. Having 
just started doing some development work it is even more applicable to me.

Yes, most things are built for the builder first. Personally, I have tried 
to make things only I will use as the things that require CL options. So 
far I have had no requests for features on my own SW. However, having 
helped bugfix in Ardour a bit, I have seen a lot of feature requests that 
just don't make sense. Not that they are wrong or bad feature requests, 
but that the user has not explained what it is really that they are 
looking for. Most of the time this is because some other DAW has this 
feature and they just use the name in that DAW or that it is very obvious 
with what is in front of them right now. Reading a feature request that is 
about MIDI while I am working with Audio, for example, is going to confuse 
me onless the user actually says "when editing midi".

So I am thinking that badly executed feature requests may also be partly 
the user's fault. As a user, someone asking for a feature should be 
willing to stick around and explain fully what they want and help test the 
results. I will note that I am not any better at making feature requests 
than anyone else. I generally have to explain more than one time what I am 
actually wanting. (bug reports have similar issues)

So in the same way a bug report should include a recipe to make the bug 
happen, what actually happens, what is expected. A feature request should 
do the same.

There are some developers who are just grumpy by nature... or because of 
culture/language just seem that way.

Anyway, it was a very good talk (all three parts). Thank you for posting.



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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net