The role of users

[Colin Scott]

Don't know what happened to the quotation chevrons there.  Only the first para should have been quoted - the rest of it is my text.  It should look as in the "original message" below. Sorry for the confusion.

Colin

-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* Re: The role of users
*From:* "Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net>
*To:* smcg4191 at frii.com, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
*CC:* gnucash at double-bars.net
*Date:* Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:08 +0100 (BST)

> demand that someone else do "what I want", not just 
> once or twice but repetitively

>From where I'm sitting that looks like a pretty heavy distortion of what has been going on in here.  To the best of my recollection nobody has "demanded" anything, even if there have been some strongly argued suggestions - and most of them about process, not features.  As I understand it, most of the recent debate (leaving aside the technical discussions of the right and wrong way to test things!) has been about the relationships between developers, users, and the gnucash project.

Moreover, a dialogue along the lines of

Q "wouldn't it be a good idea to do X"
A "no"

is hardly satisfactory to either side, so some further talk, possibly like

Q "but if you did X then Y and that would give you Z"
        etc etc

Or even

Q "but if you don't do X the you miss out on Y and Z
        etc etc

seems not unreasonable.

Colin