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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
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Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:25:59 -0500 |
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> > That is true, but it may not be a problem. To get useful results, we
> > don't need most of the community to switch. It is enough to get
> > answers from a variety of users.
> Which users should they be, and how do we find them and reach out to
> them?
One obvious way is to post an announcement on various mailing lists,
asking people to repost it. People will respond.
> They should definitely be users who have the just-released version
> installed, which is why I mentioned the observation that the process
> of upgrading to a new version is slow and takes many moons.
That's why I suggest waiting before we ask.
> Let's say we have half a dozen of such features, and we need to wait
> for the answers for a few months about each one of them. Who can have
> a long enough attention span to manage such a polling system?
I propose a distributed system which needs no management. The people
who advocate changing the default to enable a given feature will
probably speak up about it. We just need a rule about the minimum
time to wait after the release.
If they don't speak up, that suggests that having the new option is
sufficient ;-}.
> who can
> keep track of all those features even though we could switch branches
> and release a couple of versions in-between?
Those little turns in the road won't intefere with their memory of
where they want to go.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, (continued)
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Juri Linkov, 2021/01/05
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/05
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Juri Linkov, 2021/01/04
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Juri Linkov, 2021/01/14
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/15
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/03
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- RE: Confused by y-or-n-p, Drew Adams, 2021/01/06
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