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

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Louigi Verona wrote: 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. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net