PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 06:05:32 Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Jon Masters wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I will propose this to FESCo through their normal channels.
> > 
> > My proposal is that we create a "Fedora User Survey" and create a link
> > on the fp.o website with a few very simple questions. One of those
> > questions would be what users think about the current update policy,
> > using plain (and as non-bias as possible) language to explain.
> > 
> > This isn't an attempt to undermine FESCo, but you have to remember that
> > users don't typically directly vote for FESCo or otherwise get involved
> > in big decisions like this that will affect them. The developers do
> > this, and we are motivated by our own experiences. While I'm not looking
> > to create another California referendum process for Fedora, I do think
> > occasional (maybe annual) surveys for user input would be useful.
> 
> -1
> 
> It sure looks like a californian referendum process. Let me make this
> abundantly clear: I have ZERO interest in developing a distro which is
> driven by mob vote of whomever happens to be on the internet.

Ok, but then we're stuck in infinite cycle. Some people want to change update 
policies/target of Fedora because of users, we don't know who are our user and 
what they want. Now someone wants to know who are our users/what our users 
really want, we don't want to know it, because we don't want to do Fedora for 
what users want or need, because we're developing Fedora for us. Funny ;-)

I'm not saying - do survey and do whatever users wants... But do survey, to 
know our users, our target audience. Then we can start talk if this target 
audience is that one we want or we can easily decide, that we're not 
interested in this target audience and we can start again from scratch! I 
still believe in - more involvement in Fedora, more decision making. But it 
does not mean ignoring users/community and do decisions from top and small 
group of some people.

Jaroslav

> -sv

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