A statisticaslly valid sample will be difficult here, I mean a slashdot
poll is maybe a way to reach a wide portuion of the userbase, but they all
think freebsd is dead:) Some user will object no matter what you do.
Even if you emailed root of every system that did a portsnap or cvsup or
freebsd-update, some would be offended, though that is one way to reach
large numbers.
Brian
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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Ade Lovett wrote:
On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you
have seen in public are in this category
Enough said. There are currently ~180 people with direct access to
the ports/ tree (ie: ports committers).
Only 2 are self-reported maintainers and at least 5 admit to not being
maintainers... I think your main issue is you are 100% in "there is
nothing wrong" camp and for what ever reason want to convience
everyone else any effort to say/do differently is misguided.
Even assuming all private email responses came from committers,
that's an 11% hit rate.
That is why I am planning to wait to the end of Dec. or so to report
the results in detail (and widen the audiences/forums)
Which part of "statistically invalid" is not getting through here?
A self-selected sample will never be "statically" valid *BUT* it can
be informative about what people are thinking.
- --
Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
Developer, not business, friendly
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
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