Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Hi All, I think more than 6000 people here should be more active in terms of Firebird visibility support - this poll received only 29 votes for Firebird. Also, it would be nice to have more testimonials from Firebirders: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/testimonials/ (submit your testimonial in the end of the page - in any language). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions (*must be registered user with at least one Linux related post*) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2013-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-109/database-of-the-year-4175488206/ _
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Alexey Kovyazin wrote: > I think more than 6000 people here should be more active in terms of Firebird > visibility support - this poll received only 29 votes for Firebird. I think these particular polls are getting a bit tired. There were a lot more votes in general last year - I think? From my point of view it shows the split in MySQL nicely and I'd lump them together, so we are 'joint third' ... even with just 29 votes. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Not everyone here chose Firebird for their project because they thought it was the world's best database. Probably rather more people had no choice at all, being assigned to a project that was already using Firebird. And the same will apply to any user community, of course. -- Tim Ward
RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
We chose Firebird ourselves, and love Firebird. We use Windows though, not Linux, but we do have a few sites that have chosen to use a Linux server. Haven't voted on the poll, as we really have no Linux related question to ask, so don't qualify to vote on that poll. Have added a testimonial to the Firebird page now though ;-)
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Thank you, Maya! Your testimonial is visible now. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin We chose Firebird ourselves, and love Firebird. We use Windows though, not Linux, but we do have a few sites that have chosen to use a Linux server. Haven't voted on the poll, as we really have no Linux related question to ask, so don't qualify to vote on that poll. Have added a testimonial to the Firebird page now though ;-)
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
That site sucks. Last Year I registered to vote, I have tried a lot of things and find no way to vote, Then someone told me I need to make a post (oh ! a really smart way to avoid robots :) ), so I made a post, no way to vote, one told me I need to wait some time to "refresh" the data, other said that I need to log off/log on, etc, etc, etc. so I gave up. This year I entered the site, remembered that I need to make a post to vote, and just press the log off button. Am I lazy ? Perhaps... But I really dislike that site, will not vote there, period. And couldn't agree more that Firebird users lost his passion... Why ? I don't know... Em 5/2/2014 10:39, Carlos H. Cantu escreveu: Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions From my own experience with the number of votes in polls at firebidNews.org and firebase.com.br, I think people are "lazy" about voting. This LinuxQuestions poll is even "worse" in such aspect, since not everyone uses FB on Linux, and even when they use, most people don't wanna waste 5 minutes registering to a site they will not use, just to be able to vote por FB. I would say that in the past, Firebird users were more passionate about the product. Unfortunately, this seems to not be true anymore (and I could list some possible reasons for that). Carlos Firebird Performance in Detail - http://videos.firebirddevelopersday.com www.firebirdnews.org <http://www.firebirdnews.org>- www.FireBase.com.br <http://www.FireBase.com.br> Hi All, I think more than 6000 people here should be more active in terms of Firebird visibility support - this poll received only 29 votes for Firebird. Also, it would be nice to have more testimonials from Firebirders: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/testimonials/ (submit your testimonial in the end of the page - in any language). Regards, Alexey Kovyazin Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions (*must be registered user with at least one Linux related post*) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2013-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-109/database-of-the-year-4175488206/ _
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Hello Carlos, > This LinuxQuestions poll is even "worse" in such aspect, since not everyone > uses FB on Linux, and even when they use, most people don't wanna waste 5 > minutes registering to a site they will not use, just to be able to vote por > FB. I would say that in the past, Firebird users were more passionate about > the product. Unfortunately, this seems to not be true anymore (and I could > list some possible reasons for that). What are they, in your opinion? Maybe we should discuss this in Firebird-general. I, too, have the impression that we used to have more momentum in the past, but maybe that's just me: back then I had much more time, so I contributed more to Firebird, followed all the newsgroups, etc. Cheers, Paul Vinkenoog
Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Paul, IMHO, the major reason for the "decreasing passion" is the (too) long periods of apparent "no activity" that we have between each FB official release. People just get "bored". A new release coming out creates a general "hype" making people excited, feeling that the product is alive and moving forward, and making them curious about the news. With a new release, people have new features to use and to talk about, and the "heat" brings together passion and more action in the forums, lists, sites (new articles being written/posted), tools, etc. For the view of most users, who don't follow fb-devel, or do not care about checking the SVN commits, etc, the Project is frozen since the release of FB 2.5 (+3 years ago, yes - I'm not counting bugfixes releases). In a epoch where you get browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc) getting major releases several times a year, Delphi getting at last one major release by year and so on, having to wait 4 years for a new major release probably deviates people attention (and passion) to other things. PS: I know our core-developers never stopped working, and that the internal FB 3 changes are heavy and complex, but "standard" users are not aware of this. Btw, probably this went off-topic, so feel free to move the talk to another list or to a private chat. []s Carlos Firebird Performance in Detail - http://videos.firebirddevelopersday.com www.firebirdnews.org - www.FireBase.com.br PV> Hello Carlos, >> This LinuxQuestions poll is even "worse" in such aspect, since not everyone >> uses FB on Linux, and even when they use, most people don't wanna waste 5 >> minutes registering to a site they will not use, just to be able to vote por >> FB. I would say that in the past, Firebird users were more passionate about >> the product. Unfortunately, this seems to not be true anymore (and I could >> list some possible reasons for that). PV> What are they, in your opinion? Maybe we should discuss this in PV> Firebird-general. I, too, have the impression that we used to have PV> more momentum in the past, but maybe that's just me: back then I PV> had much more time, so I contributed more to Firebird, followed all the newsgroups, etc. PV> Cheers, PV> Paul Vinkenoog
RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
Nowadays, I'm very particular about what I sign up for. Once in a while I go through my gmail account (with about 800 unread mails at the moment) and unsubscribe from anything I haven't managed to read in the past year, no matter how much I really wanted to get to doing so. If a poll does not let me sign in with Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/etc. I generally close my browser at that point. These guys did a very neat poll recently for programming languages: http://code2013.herokuapp.com/?elq=44d2e43369514fa69a86c4ffef4bd2ed&elqCampaignId=1025 You post to twitter to vote, and they count the unique hashtags so the whole thing is very transparent.
RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions
At 07:01 p.m. 6/02/2014, Maya Opperman wrote: >Nowadays, I'm very particular about what I sign up for. OK, time to move this topic to where it should have been from the start. (The "OT" tag shows that the original poster knew it, too.) Please sign up to firebird-general - that's your general "chat" forum for topics non-technical. You can sign up from your Yahoo home page or use the automatic subscribe link at http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/mailing-lists/ ^heLen^ (List Moderator)
