I wish more companies were doing this.
What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness?
Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.
Neat approach. I've also seen public facing trello boards used to varying success (at the very least to give users a hopefully clear picture of what features/issues are prioritized)
There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting.
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