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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Come on, Jay, that's a huge overstatement. I've already seen *some* activity arising from the 300 device handout.

But in my case, I wanted to use it at least a week before entering bugs or blogging about the experience. I've already discovered that several bugs aren't really bugs per se but rather possible enhancement requests or me misunderstanding a purpose. So I see some value in taking stock of the devices THEN taking some big plunges. Like this one.
(Yes, some activity. I'm not talking about development work at all here in this thread.)

I don't think it's that much of a huge overstatement at all, actually. I've only seen, at most, maybe four or five new names appear on http://www.maemo.org/packages/ that weren't there already before Summit. No packages have seen massive jumps in thumbs up like we were expecting.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to savour the taste of the N900 before diving in with filing bugs. That takes time to do properly. It takes more information and work and reproduction steps and all that jazz. That's understandable.

Clicking a thumbs up or thumbs down to say "works for me", which takes all of 10 seconds to do, should not somehow get in the way of you taking your time with your device before filing bugs. In fact, it's the PERFECT time to be doing it because you're going to be trying out all sorts of packages to play with on your fun new toy.

It's just very discouraging when 300 people got to go to Summit, get new devices and then don't bother to take the time to vote on a package or two in return. I didn't expect everyone to do it... but at least a somewhat decent amount. 50 out of 300 people voting on at least one package shouldn't be too much to ask, but apparently it was. And I can totally understand that if these were normal end users who didn't want to bother or don't know how or whatever... but these are developers and power users.

I wasn't there, but maybe Nokia didn't push the idea of voting on packages to the 300. I don't know. And now I'm just rambling because I'm just frustrated.
 

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