Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

Hi Pedro,
On 08/02/2012 18:37, Pedro wrote:
> Charles-H.Schulz wrote
> > You have similar polls in supermarkets. But supermarkets are no
> > democracies.
> Really? Supermarkets make polls for products they do not wish to sell? And
> they do accept the shopper's decision?
> I have never seen such a supermarket!
>
> Anyway even if the developers aren't "elected" by the users (to have what
> you call a democratic structure) it still is pretty close to a democracy and
> much more community friendly than meritocracy ;)

I think that nobody in the community would prevent you to organize such 
a poll. If you manage to deal with it from the ux and developer point of 
view, we always valued the broader input we can get.
If you look at what is happening currently for the conditional formating 
dialog,
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-ux-advise-conditional-format-dialog-td3724185.html
what you want is currently happening.
But (there is always a but ;) the size of our community makes it very 
difficult to manage the feedback from our users. More if you add the 
language communities feedback (for this specific case, I know the FR 
community has been asked for feedback) it's even more complicated to 
collect the thoughts and translate them.
So if you feel that you can manage to organize a communication flow 
between the different actors of the project, I'm really sure that nobody 
will prevent you to do so, on the contrary I'm sure you'll find people 
to support you and help you. It's not democracy still, it's: you want 
it, you do it ;-)

Kind regards
Sophie

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