PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 9 13:00:44 UTC 2010



On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> On 03/08/2010 11:05 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> -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.
>>
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but right now the Fedora project knows little
> to nothing about its user base as a whole from a scientific perspective.
> Starting to gather user-generated (instead of system, such as smolt)
> will be a benefit, IMHO. You could easily rm -rf the results in the end.
> I'm not of the survey type either, but it would be interesting (to say
> the least) to see if anyone would even take it.

I have no doubt people would take it. But it would be self-selecting 
and/or filled with trolling.

you have been on websites that allow anonymous posting, right? You know 
what happens to them?

-sv




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