Hi, > Yes, anonymous polling is liking playing with fire. Let me throw > this out there -- for a *first* run -- you could only allow FAS > accounts to take the survey. That would really narrow your > demographics to only contributors, which is what you wish to see. If we're trying to make decisions on behalf of people with FAS accounts, that's what we have FESCo for. We voted for them so that they would represent us, and having them answer a policy question like this one with "Well, let's create a huge vote about it" would feel like a gigantic failure of governance. We voted for them because we expect them to look more deeply into what the right answer is on an issue than a sampling of people with FAS accounts would; that's why they're there. Now, there's a reasonable argument that says that Fedora users without FAS accounts didn't vote for FESCo, so it's still legitimate to ask *those* users what they think. The impossibility of reaching such a group of users without incorporating selection bias would turn me off from trying to do that -- it would be nice if we could find out how the entire Fedora-using world feels about updates, but that's not actually plausible. Even just the set of Fedora users who visit http://fedoraproject.org/ is significantly selection-biased already, in my opinion. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> One Laptop Per Child -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
