On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:44 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 14:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > I've gotten some mail from outside users directly to me about this after > > > they read the wiki - do we want to have a specific pointer about where > > > on the lists to discuss on the wiki page? > > > > The totally unrealistic "20% of time; 1% of users" figure seems to have > > been quoted already. Can we rephrase that and hold off on the PPC > > witch-hunt please? > > Huh? http://lwn.net/Articles/211152/ quotes it thus: >> 'Back in October, LWN covered Fedora's need for metrics on how many >> people are using the distribution. The project has now put up a page >> on possible data collection techniques with a request for comments. >> Quite a few different approaches are being considered. "The fact is >> that metrics are important for anyone trying to do something with >> limited resources. It allows us to put what little resources we do >> have to better use. If the developers spend 20% of their time >> debugging PPC and our metrics show that they are 1% of our install >> base, the argument could be made that less time needs to be spent on >> PPC."' There's enough FUD about what a support burden PPC is already; we don't have to contribute to it with stuff like the above. The 20% figure is completely unrealistic, and we all know it -- the fact that it's presented as a hypothetical example doesn't really excuse the fact that it's given so prominently and quotably. Hence the request for it to be rephrased. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
