On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? I think that was a very good idea. And it shows what i meant with the face and character of Fedora, in one of the other threads. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
