| 1 |
> 2011/12/4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o>: |
| 2 |
>> I already stated that I would leave the call to zmedico as lead |
| 3 |
>> developer of portage. Giving him the arguments and the data to make the |
| 4 |
>> decision, but watching whether his reasoning is sound. That means |
| 5 |
>> clearly saying where it is based on fact and where it is based on opinion. |
| 6 |
>> (I wouldn't mind if he made an entirely opinion based decision, as long |
| 7 |
>> as he didn't claim it to be fact-based) |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
I think it's difficult or impossible to get an reasonably unbiased |
| 10 |
sample of the population of Gentoo users as a whole. Voting is only fair |
| 11 |
when you can get a reasonably unbiased sample of the whole population. |
| 12 |
Due to human nature, people who are unhappy with the change in defaults |
| 13 |
are more likely to express their opinion publicly than people who |
| 14 |
welcome the change in defaults. This tends to bias statistics in favor |
| 15 |
of the unhappy people. |
| 16 |
-- |
| 17 |
Thanks, |
| 18 |
Zac |
Archives