You will always suffer, as a developer, from low-quality comments, pull requests and argumentation. There is no tool to change that since you cannot influence, change or put force on people doing XZZ. Over 70 Percent of FOSS work is talking talking talking and it is annoying and boring, but this is the way how it is.
You are incorrect saying this is not a user thing, it absolutely is. The only way is to enforce something on them, platform wise or manually, but that is all you can do. The more experience a user has with FOSS or contribution in general, the more advance he will become, and therefore the overall quality of his interaction will usually go up. As always, there are exceptions.
there should be a template of a poll for FOSS - one any dev or group can get their users to fill out. At the bottom, maybe a fill-in text box so users can voice their top concerns or suggestions.
I made a detailed longgggg suggestion list anonymously in the box they had on the wall at work and every single suggestion (10 to 15) were implemented.
Asking for feedback is a geat idea.
Maybe FOSS also needs to solicit help from volunteers to sort through polls, bugs, suggestions.
I’ve considered offering my help (i’ve done menial office tasks before), but was sure I’d be laughed at for my lack of technical expertise or that maybe this was all done through technology.
Maybe devs need a FOSS group where devs post what help they need and users post what help they can offer - a bit like that recycling website freecycle. We could even offer the occasional PC part. The FOSS community needs better organziation, better communicaion - but, I know that often leads to tyranny gradually.
You will always suffer, as a developer, from low-quality comments, pull requests and argumentation. There is no tool to change that since you cannot influence, change or put force on people doing XZZ. Over 70 Percent of FOSS work is talking talking talking and it is annoying and boring, but this is the way how it is.
You are incorrect saying this is not a user thing, it absolutely is. The only way is to enforce something on them, platform wise or manually, but that is all you can do. The more experience a user has with FOSS or contribution in general, the more advance he will become, and therefore the overall quality of his interaction will usually go up. As always, there are exceptions.
there should be a template of a poll for FOSS - one any dev or group can get their users to fill out. At the bottom, maybe a fill-in text box so users can voice their top concerns or suggestions. I made a detailed longgggg suggestion list anonymously in the box they had on the wall at work and every single suggestion (10 to 15) were implemented. Asking for feedback is a geat idea. Maybe FOSS also needs to solicit help from volunteers to sort through polls, bugs, suggestions. I’ve considered offering my help (i’ve done menial office tasks before), but was sure I’d be laughed at for my lack of technical expertise or that maybe this was all done through technology. Maybe devs need a FOSS group where devs post what help they need and users post what help they can offer - a bit like that recycling website freecycle. We could even offer the occasional PC part. The FOSS community needs better organziation, better communicaion - but, I know that often leads to tyranny gradually.