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Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 23:36:21 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02)

* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2020-10-11 22:48]:
> Those kinds of things are indeed also possible.  We could add a
> submenu of `Help' for things related to the existing mailing lists
> (reading, subscribing, submitting).

Please install Hyperbole and see how they done that.

> > > Well, it doesn't constitute a "survey", but it does correspond to
> > > what RMS, I, and Jean-Louis have emphasized here: getting users to
> > > say, in their own words, what they want and what they do.
> > 
> > Let me emphasize again, there is number of users who will never speak
> > in public or publish their opinion, why should they? (as thinking from
> > their view point). In my opinion that is greater number of Emacs
> > users. It has to be taken in consideration if then developers are
> > working only for those who are online louder and more exposed to talk,
> > or if they should be maybe working on some set of principles for
> > general users.
> 
> Of course.  For active input we're pretty much limited to voluntary
> contribution.  That can be encouraged, but we can be sure, at most,
> only that it represents the views of the volunteers.

Those who don't want to tell anything, should speak out louder...



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