On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:04 -0800, Adam Williamson 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 > 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. It seems people are getting confused, so let me state it more clearly. Here's the specific conclusion I draw from this data: Those who asserted in these threads that 'users don't want adventurous updates' shouldn't do so. The poll clearly indicates that some users do want these updates. If someone does a more comprehensive poll which demonstrates that these users are actually a tiny minority; fine. It would then be appropriate to assert that the majority of users do not want these updates, and use that in an argument that Fedora should restrict them. At present, however, it is not sustainable to do so. That's all. I'm not presenting this as some kind of proof that all Fedora users definitely want all updates all the time, I'm just plugging it in to show that what users want may not be what some people _think_ they want, and if you want to rely on 'what users want' as a part of your argument, you should provide some decent evidential basis for that. If, on the other hand, you want to argue that it's not important what users want, you don't need to, and this part of the discussion becomes a no-op. There, I hope that's clear. -- 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
