translation of the article "Many Hands Make the light work, a few" make it shine "Benjamin Humphrey.
"Ubuntu is held in a special place between Windows and Mac OS X only restricted to Linux brighter than Windows, OS X less, which gives a steaming pile of mediocrity.
Since I am involved in the Ubuntu world, I was témoin de nombreux exemples de la volonté de tenir la voie du milieu : ça marche, ça fait ce qui était prévu, mais ça ne s'étire pas un peu plus pour rendre l'expérience utilisateur plus plaisante et de ce fait les consommateurs heureux. Ces implémentations à moitié cuites conduisent paradoxalement à plus de frustration que si elles avaient été tout simplement omises. Les utilisateurs essayent de s'amuser avec les jouets brillants dispersés par les développeurs, pour découvrir finalement les bords pointus et tranchants.
Une des raisons pour lesquelles Apple remporte tellement de succès et possède une si bonne image de marque vis à vis du grand public est qu'ils have all these great ideas, but they follow with great accomplishments and attention to detail.
We seem to have a sprinkling of raw, but nothing more. From Derek Sivers, ideas are just a multiplier . A brilliant idea is worthless unless you do not spend the time necessary for its realization is also brilliant.
example:
plans Launchpad: Ubuntu Developers Summit At I was assigned many tasks verbatim on a whiteboard, according to individual plans. Now all the stuff I have to do is spread throughout Launchpad and is very time consuming to really get to understand what I'm supposed to do. If we had gone that bit further and we had made sure that tasks are allocated to people, I could easily see all those assigned to me and have my tasks described itself in one place. I would spend less time searching what I'm supposed to do and instead, more time to do .
Me The Menu: my roommate asked me to install Ubuntu on his laptop because he was sick of Windows. After a little playing with, he removed the Me Menu only to find that the menu "Exit" had been removed. Although menus are not even related at random, they are bound for any reason giving an unexpected result when you try to remove one.
Not to mention that lack a label text field.
The notification system: it needs some improvements, such as managing the priorities that he does not interrupt your games and movies in full screen, among other things , but has been virtually no reworked since its first implementation ago one year. We've just decided that it is "good enough"?
The infamous bug copy / paste : If you copy text, then you close the source of this text, and try to paste it somewhere, nothing will happen. It's open for six years and is one of those things that should have been resolved long ago but for one reason or another, it was simply neglected.
Brainstorm: an excellent idea in theory - what better an infrastructure where users can use democracy to vote for features? There's just one problem: I do not think I never seen an original idea brainstorm done, that was not already planned by Canonical. Ubuntu
One: I have heard countless stories like what it does not sync properly, or it does not work when you buy a song and several people have even had download their songs one by one via web interface when it does not sync. It does not support any other platform that does not give me no reason to use it with Dropbox, especially since I can not buy music because I love my region is not taken into account anyway.
La documentation Ubuntu n'a pas été mise à jour depuis 2008, pas même la mention du copyright . La documentation officielle porte juste sur les trucs qui montent, et sera de plus en plus hors sujet avec l'avancement d'Ubuntu avec Unity, les nouveaux applets indicateurs, Me Menu, Notifications, la Logithèque Ubuntu, windicators, décoration côté client etc.
En fait, il n'y a absolument aucune documentation pour le Me Menu dans la documentation officielle de la 10.04 et les recherches sur le sujet ne rapportent pas grand chose . Pas plus qu'à propos de la Logithèque Ubuntu .
Ensuite il y a les documents de la communauté, avec a subdomain of ubuntu. com referring to Microsoft as M $ . I mean, anyway. So unprofessional?
And where are the pictures? The documentation and support should be full of interactive tutorials, visual aids and multimedia - but there is not simply because it's easier to have just text.
I hear you say that all this is correct, because we have an "iterative development process" when we leave something every six months and then we work on for the next outing. But here the problem is to always be doing the release of a product, and, in the case of LTS release (ie. long term support), the consumer may not see another one or two years before. The great strength of Ubuntu is the desktop version is the first Linux distribution that many people approach - and therefore all small warts are not on our feet but appear on our face.
We have learned the lesson that people trying Ubuntu, do not like, and do not re trying more. How many times have you heard people they have tried it a few years ago and thought it was ugly and their wireless card did not work? They are very difficult to change their minds, so this is crucial to ensure that every product we release is a high quality standard, either by following a schedule or not.
Some people do it correctly and projects - the elementary project, the guys docky the project papercuts are perfect examples of what Ubuntu should be. We need more projects like the 100 cut sheet - where the bugs are identified and resolved without bickering. This project is the effort to do the job, and the immediate result gives a better overall product because of all these little things that count.
elementary team created super themes, icons and tweaks Nautilus with great attention to detail, blow their OS seems incredibly bright, and Docky has a professional look that makes it even better than the Mac dock OS X Apple has spent years developing and setting. Integrate this with a very innovative work and you suddenly have a feature that your competitors do not. But instead of including this great job in the system, is buried in a repository. My list is long PPP two kilometers because the software I use is not available in official repositories.
The problem lies not only in the software, or community, or a department or a particular team. It seems to me that this attitude always associated with open source software, Linux or Ubuntu - or all three at once. It's almost as if we had placed the goal of lower quality than our counterparts owners, perhaps because most of us are volunteers, or because we do not charge for our products and we believe that free software will become public one day simply by their principles.
We even sometimes act so as to appear slightly open. We provide support for beginners horrible and we're sometimes rude . We only collaborate anywhere as much as we should, and we cling to the bureaucracy and wasted time protocols, that we tried so hard to liberate us. Canonical hires useful research and information community, as if we were working against each other, we have assembled to lead the meetings and our support infrastructure and our returns are first used mess. Our community is something our competitors do not have is an asset in our sleeve, and there we do not use its full potential. We
silence people who express their concerns or criticisms with sincere good intentions, whether in private or on a weblog that the whole world can see. We are not far to change, not far from new ideas and innovative and enthusiastic people - unlike Google, which is our complete opposite and proved that their methods work. They stimulate creativity and build a facility where they believe that nothing is impossible - I think we also have that mentality.
If we want to solve the bug number one, get rid of the Microsoft monopoly that has poisoned the world for 20 years and offer free software to as many people, we must get to work seriously. Not only our product, Ubuntu, but also about our collaboration and our protocol, our infrastructure and our contributors.
We all work for the same purpose, so do not be defensive if I criticize your work - I try to help. Do not work in secret when you have a community full of intelligent and talented literally at your request things to do, and do not skimp on the small details, because that is all those little details that turn sets a good Product a fantasy. Determine where to draw the line between forcing something dull to be a product out because you cling to a schedule, and may give him another six months before embedding.
And remember, the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the gratuity has been forgotten.
Benjamin Follow on Twitter @ humphreybc "
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