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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:45:46 -0500 |
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> Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> Any user who will see and respond to a question is unrepresentative |
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>>> of the user base in general. |
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>> So if ten users reply then, are all ten individually wrong too? |
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> Not my point. My point is that most Gentoo users would either not see |
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> the question or not respond. Those that both see the question and take |
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> time to respond are highly atypical. |
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If you were clever enough and wanted the largest amount of answers you |
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would put the questions around ever communication channel gentoo has, |
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you would then get the opinions of the majority of users. |
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>> I wish ALL users would vote in a poll on the forums |
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> That wouldn't tell you what all users want though. It would tell you |
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> what forum users who take the time to respond to a poll want. Again, |
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> not a representative sample. And that's the issue at hand -- Gentoo has |
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> an extremely hard time delivering information to most users. Getting |
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> information back is even trickier. The set of people who respond is |
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> heavily skewed towards better-informed users who have time to seek out |
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> and participate in that kind of questioning. |
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Ahhhhh, now I see! The fact that we would get answers from some users is |
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the reason why it shouldn't be done |
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>> as to what we the users want and what direction we want Gentoo to go |
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>> in. |
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> I want guaranteed total stability, instantly available updates, |
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> guaranteed backwards compatibility, the ability to install any package |
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> from source using my configuration of choice in under fifteen seconds |
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> and a herd of nubile bisexual redheads. Can Gentoo deliver that? |
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Irrelevant conclusion |
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>> It's no different than elections here in the US, people gripe but |
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>> most of the gripers don't vote. |
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> Do you really think it would make any difference if they did? All it |
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> would do is lend credibility to the process, and provide people with |
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> the argument "well you voted so you agree to accept the decision of |
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> the majority". |
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It would make a difference in the relations between users and developers. |
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Being a user yourself, why are you so against yourself having a say? |
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