On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:20:47 +0100 > schrieb mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Isn't it interesting that the vote is currently 81% support for arch >> to switch to systemd (even with the misspelling in the poll), and only >> 19% against! Looks like at least from the perspective of this poll >> (even with only 237 votes in total which just shows the low level of >> interest in the poll given that the arch community must be many times >> that number of users) that the proposal that the devs made is >> overwhelmingly being supported by the community despite all the fuss >> that appeared in this mailing list! > > And what does this poll say? Exactly nothing. Do you know how many > people have voted how many times? You only need one systemd fanboy with > a few minutes spare time to get such a result. > > A poll would only make sense if it's ensured that everybody can vote > exactly once. > True but see my posting in another thread in this mailing list today pointing to some rather more useful stats. -- mike c