On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
When it comes to comments and recommendations for selecting software packages, developers *are* the end users :)
Yes, most certainly. But developers as consumers are very different from application users as consumers, which is what I was getting at. The convenience interfaces for commenting on a library are far less valuable for developers, IMO, since developers are expected to better understand how their context impacts their perception. Useful feedback from a developer just doesn't fit will into the giant-pile-of-comments UIs conventional for non-developers. If I'm wrong about that, then I'm saddened by the state of the profession. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller