On 1/13/2019 10:19 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 07:51:34PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>> Side note, I was at a loss of what you were getting at. There were several
>>> ways it could be interpreted and has been used by people in the past to
>>> mean different things.
>> I think John's statement was pretty clear: The artificial distinction
>> between "Editions" and "Spins" needs to go away.
>>
>>> The problem is that there is an inherent conflict of resources here. When
>>> we put everything on the download pages, everyone including the spin
>>> owners say it was too confusing.
> The issue of which spins/editions are promoted is orthogonal to the
> issue of counting. After all, counting just reflects the actual
> frequency of installations, not the reasons for it.
>
> But counting may provide a fresh look at this issue. We'll have much
> better data which spins/editions are used. If it turns out that KDE is
> more popular than previous statistics showed, or that KDE has a higher
> retention rate (the number of short-lived installations is low
> suggesting that users "like it if they see it"), this would be a
> strong argument to make the KDE spin more visible.
>
> Zbyszek

Relying on use-data here seems counter-intuitive. Shouldn't the decision
be made based on project first principles or community goals first, with
visibility and marketing effort being put in subsequent to that to meet
those goals?