On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:26:52PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > The preamble of the survey was terrible, in my opinion. I found > it in the mail log, but not in the results posted here or on > the poll results text file. I consider it incorrect on several > key points and it states a lot of the surveyor's beliefs. For a > self-selecting listener opinion poll (SLOP), this seems likely > to influence which listeners respond. Additionally, it should > have contained some details about what happens to responses, > especially how and when the results would be published.
It was intended to be a very short introduction to the issues (which turned out to be really hard to write since each issue is complicated) to make sure they at least had a vague idea what the poll was about. I did encourage them to read Manoj's draft statement. Nonetheless, I think it was still too long and probably contributed to the low turnout. > [...] > > 5. Is Debian making a big deal out of a minor issue? Should Debian be > > focusing more on creating a usable operating system and less on worrying > > about licensing issues? > > This question is very troublesome. It's actually two different > questions and rather biased wording. The original post of it > was missing a word, too. I don't think it's safe to give much > weight to the answers. If a respondant read this question > before answering any (as they can with an emailed survey), > it may have biased all their answers even further. :-( The intention was to see if people were voting based on a perceived overreaction by Debian to licensing issues in general, or perhaps a frustration with the release cycle (e.g. we're wasting time on other things when we should be releasing). Think of it as a knee-jerk-o-meter. Given that only 60% voted "Yes", and a few of those clarified that only this particular licensing issue was overblown, that indicates to me many had not given knee-jerk responses and had given some consideration to the GFDL before answering. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]