<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Peter von Kaehne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:refdoc@gmx.net">refdoc@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Von: Ben Morgan <<a href="mailto:benpmorgan@gmail.com">benpmorgan@gmail.com</a>><br>
<div class="im">> I think this is<br>
> an<br>
> example of why a checklist of features is not as useful as could be hoped<br>
> for.<br>
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</div>I think this is a bit off tangent and also not correct. The checklist of featurese we maintain in the wiki is editable - if a feature needs more detail - e.g. 1 level vs 2 level indentation this can be easily added.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Yes, it is editable. But I also think that is off the point. Personally, I don't edit it because I don't see much point.<br> <br>Basically, any checklist like this is interesting in one sense, but doesn't give a big picture. Some programs can have paid special attention to features so that they are useful and discoverable, others may just have shoe-horned a feature in and it is hard to use. Last time I looked, some of the unique features of BPBible could technically be claimed by other programs depending on exactly how I phrased it - but only BPBible did the feature in a really useful way (I'm just choosing BPBible because it's what I've worked on, though for various reasons I haven't touched it for a while - no doubt other programs have similar things).
Also last time I looked the checklist was much too long and didn't always concentrate on what I consider the important things.<br><br>In the open source world (and it's not just open source), sometimes it just ends up a battle for how many checkboxes you can claim you ticked. I don't think that is useful to the user quite a lot of the time - they care about the general experience, and if the program doesn't provide a given feature/option/etc., but does provide a good experience, they may not even know/care, and that's fine. <br>
</div><div><br>Mind you, I understand that opinions differ and some people like the checklist, so I'm not against it per se for those people - I won't be updating it for BPBible 0.5 though anytime soon. <br><br clear="all">
God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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