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2007-07-07 , 19:34
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Hi Qim, nice to see you here ! Just a remark about a couple of points you made :

Originally Posted by qgil View Post
- "Silence" is a tough accusation though. In the maemo.org context @nokia.com people are discussing with users and developers regularly.
- I guess the "silence" accusation comes from the fact that nobody is answering officially as Nokia in ITT discussions. I'm really not sure if Nokia members should commit to be active here, in an independent (and successful, and pretty cool) forum. Does anybody expect answers from Mozilla, OOo, Ubuntu, (etc) developers out of their own channels of feedback and discussion?
The first one is true, and the second one I agree with. But "silence" is not the same thing as "absence of answers". Yes, @nokia folks (mostly techies) do blog and participate and be helpful in the mailing lists, but that doesn't mean many long-standing questions (mostly non-technical) don't stay unanswered, especially by the people who *should* answer them (who maybe are not the same as those who speak to us).

I have seen many such questions posted to the maemo mailing lists (and posted a couple myself), which have actually been met by total silence, or at best by vague and reassuring answers, blog posts, roadmaps or declarations of intent, a lot of which are still unfulfilled six or twelve months later.

People ask their questions wherever they think they have a chance that someone will take notice : here, on the maemo lists, in comments to blog posts, on IRC, whatever. I have seen these just about everywhere : why are long-standing bugs not fixed ? will there be a BT audio profile ? will there be a BT PAN profile ? will there be a decent, non-proprietary SIP client ? will there be upgrades to the OS2007HE for the 770 ? And many more such, without an answer or a clear one.

Probably part of the reason is that often the people @nokia who see the questions don't have the answers, or maybe are not allowed to give them. This I totally understand, but then it means only two things : either there is *someone* who knows the answers and can give them -- then at times they should stand up and speak ; either there is not... 'nuff said.

So yes, "silence" is maybe not the right accusation, nor all of it ; but "noise" is not the right answer, nor all of it, either :-)