Update question: some user data

[Thomas Janssen]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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

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