Thread: User-friendliness of talk.maemo.org
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2009-10-17 , 16:01
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#127
Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I find some of your posts confusing. With the "my", "we", "our" used differently it seems, perhaps depending on your expected audience.
One can only speak for themselves, and let each individual do so. In the case one is assuming a (self-proclaimed) ambassador role references are useful, and one should not feel insulted or surprised when someone takes the we with a grain of salt. Ie. the reason Maemo community council is a respected authority on t.m.o is because they are elected.

Hypothetic example: one can say diagonal mode is in high demand yet without some kind of statistic research such is unclear for both outsiders as well as developers (both Nokia and non-Nokia). Therefore, the quantity of arguments is of less value than the quality of arguments.

A way to work around such is by developing a barrier. You can ask for the interested party to put some effort into their feedback. Therefore, you make sure only those who care to get through that process are going to reply. I like such barrier. I don't like it when someone puts a half effort in their feedback. In a way, the lack of SSO is such a barrier. Same for Brainstorm.

Now, the quality of arguments is lacking in this discussion about SSO and is instead here:

Your issues about the need for multiple log-ins are valid and ones I agree with. In fact I brought them up not long after I first joined maemo.org. All I wanted to do was report a bug and found I had to join bugzilla with yet another log-in. This forum wasn't a part of maemo.org at the time and I used it to vent I suppose.

When the forum did merge with maemo.org, I and others brought it up again as feed back to the powers that were coming to be. I used some of your same arguments about people not finding the site useful and not returning. A single sign on was proposed and a task initiated >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Single_sign-on
...and to see how this community handles these tasks, here is a meeting transcript... all most volunteers, all moving forward, all with a sense of purpose and conviction. >> http://maemo.org/maemo-meeting/sso-m...009-05-27.html
I don't know the exact technical limitations of SSO but I know from experience SSO is complex to implement, and because authentication is involved needs a lot of sanity checks. Therefore, I notice and respect that Maemo community members who are into SSO put effort in solving the issue, and demand myself patience. Any kind of complaining here will not make the situation better.

Can we please put the drama and felonies (JOKE) in a seperate thread...
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