PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 15:57:05 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 ?

What about people for which missing features (or not working hw) prevents them 
from doing their work? 

I don't understand why we just can't find suitable compromise? Some people are 
on one side of barricade, another on other, I feel little uncomfortable in 
between :D

Jaroslav 
 
> 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.

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