PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/09/2010 03:57 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:51 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> We get the users we aim for.
>
> Not really true. We don't aim at all, and we only get the users that can
> bear to stay with us...
>
>> Here's the camps I see:
>>
>> 1. One group wants us to aim for mom/pop/grandma/desktop users - the
>> apple market or what ubuntu aims for.
>>
>> 2. one group wants us to aim exclusively for the bleeding edge open
>> source developer market.
>>
>> 3. one group wants us to aim for the admin/experienced user who wants
>> newer things but doesn't have time nor interest to fight with lots of broken things.
>
> That is one way to phrase it. But really, the first is not just a
> 'marked', it is everybody. Who wouldn't want a system that works without
> much of a hassle and lets me do what I want to do without requiring
> constant attention to breakage and changes ?

Exactly - These groups are not mutually exclusive. They are one and the 
same user-group.

> And if you don't have anything to offer to the first group, the second
> group is going to loose interest too. Why would somebody want to develop
> software on a system that has no users ? If the users are all using
> other OSes, then it only makes sense to develop the software on those
> OSes. I cannot imagine anybody wanting to develop apps on or for Fedora
> in its current state.

Agreed. Fedora's problem is it not being suitable for any of these 
groups - Primary cause too many bugs.

Ralf