Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Orion Poplawski]

On 3/14/2010 8:14 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
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>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:14:48PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
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>>> On Sat, March 13, 2010 4:58 pm, Peter Hutterer wrote:
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>>>> Isn't there a mere RISK to lose 70-80% of our users if we do _not_
>>>> implement
>>>> the changes as well? Especially given the chance that the poll did not
>>>> represent a significant user sample?
>>>>          
>>> How many users do we need?
>>>        
>> sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question. Which user number are you
>> referring to?
>>      
> I'd venture he meant in response to your "the poll did not represent a
> significant user sample" comment.  So, how many users are needed to make it
> representative?
>    

No, I meant how many users does Fedora need to be a viable 
distribution?  Could we loose 70-80% (seems far fetched) of our user 
base and still be viable?   If we can, I don't really care how many 
users we loose as long as Fedora becomes more useful to me.  What 
concerns me most is retaining a large percentage of committed 
maintainers and community members, and that is a small enough number 
that I think we can poll effectively.