Personas

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Gervase Markham wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> I've been through and refreshed the Personas pages:
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Personas
> 
> I assert that Mitch, Peter and Sarah together cover the user base that
> Bugzilla should be focussed on. I'm happy to call this 1.0 soon. Of course,
> they are only as useful as people want to make them. When you are designing a
> feature, think "which persona(s) am I designing this for?", and "how would
> they want to use it?".

I disagree with labelling occasional bug reporters ("Fabio" persona) as
Unimportant. For our (OpenSSH's) bugzilla, these make a fair proportion
of bug reports, and some of our most important. I expect other Bugzilla-
using free software projects are similar in this regard.

-d