I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those, right? Here it is: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=241710 I tried to present the poll in a very neutral way, and as far as I know, it hasn't been linked to from anywhere else; only regular forum members are likely to come across it. So it shouldn't be massively inherently biased, and has a reasonable shot of giving us a vague idea of what some Real Fedora Users think. The numbers do surprise me, to be honest. As I write this, it's 34-8 - that's over 80% - in favour of 'adventurous' updates. A lot of the replies make it clear that people really do see being 'bleeding edge' as being a part of Fedora's nature, and a part of the reason why they run it. I wouldn't honestly have expected that; I'd have expected much closer to a 50/50 split if anything. A lot of people explicitly say things like 'I run Fedora so I can have the latest stuff on my desktop, if I want a more conservative system I'll run CentOS'. No, the voting numbers aren't huge, but it's still some kind of data. I can promote the poll to the forum front page to try and get more input, if desired. What do people make of this? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
