On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Eric Evans <eev...@acunu.com> wrote: > There probably is a rather large group of "shadow" users whose > (valuable?) input doesn't make it to the list or bug tracker. It > sounds like Gary is questioning whether we should be giving these > people a voice. Assuming I have that right, I agree that's a very > good question. This is a community-based project after all.
First, as attractive (and easy!) as it is to live inside our echo chamber, yes, I do think we should give them a voice. Of course, that doesn't mean you're obliged to listen to it. If you don't think that is a valuable source of input for prioritizing your work, you're free to ignore it. Second, what I'm talking about is a different type of data from what you get on jira + ML. Those are "negative" sources of information -- you mostly only find out someone is using compression if they have a problem with it. How many people are using it with no problems? That is what this would let us start to find out. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
