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[Nigel Babu <nigelbabu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5 July 2011 14:13, Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Here's how I imagine it'd work. Let's say we're adding an in-line
>> commenting feature to diffs in merge proposals. When someone was
>> looking at a merge proposal page, we could pop-up a JS overlay that
>> invites them to take part in a phone/Skype call. They'd have the
>> option to enter their phone number/Skype ID/whatever, or select "Ask
>> me another time" or "Never ask me about this again".
>
> This sounds like a cool idea. We might want to make it possible for
> people to say "Never ask me about any of these features at all, ever,"
> just in case they're particularly cantankerous about such things.
> Also, we should bear in mind that we're going to be interrupting their
> workflow, so there may be one or two social pitfalls that we need to
> negotiate to make this work nicely and to reduce complaints from
> users.

If this is limited to members of launchpad beta testers, you might
have a more receptive audience to help. I don't know whats the ratio
of beta testers to entire launchpad users though.  Just my 2 cents :)

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Cheers
Nigel