Hi Jim, Am 26.06.2013 05:32, schrieb Jim Henderson:
Have you ever been contacted by someone who said "gee, I'd love to contribute to the openSUSE project, but your sign-up form is just too long; it'd take me 2 minutes to fill it out, but I can only spare 10 seconds to fill out the form."
No, because those people don't complain or contact anyone, they just go elsewhere. If I had to fill out the form today (I filled it almost 10 years ago and I did not need to give all that information back then, probably because I came from the internal network), I'd just turn away and look for another distribution that wants my contribution. I'm not giving all my private data to everyone on the internet. Period. And "you can just enter fake data" => then why are they asking for it anyway? I don't buy from spammers. I don't service unreasonable requests for personal data. If someone wants me to help with his project, he should not force me to do things I don't want to do (give away too much personal data)
I kinda doubt it. If someone wants to contribute to the project and sign up for an account, taking the 2 minutes to register is small compared to the amount of time they'll put into the project if they want to be a significant contributor.
Yes. But at least in my case, I'd consider this form as "that project does not want my help." It's not about the time filling out the form. It's about the unreasonable request. And yes, I know, there are people using facebook etc. and not caring about their privacy in any way. I'm not one of them. And it does not help the project to ridicule those requests for a reasonable signup form IMVHO. It just makes me think "how have i come here? Do I really want to be here?" (A feeling I already get on a regular base because of the technical decisions anyway...) -- Stefan Seyfried "If your lighter runs out of fluid or flint and stops making fire, and you can't be bothered to figure out about lighter fluid or flint, that is not Zippo's fault." -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org