From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <30addebe-999b-c1cc-a8d8-27aba3fac566@gmx.com> <878scgkz83.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36021"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: abrochard@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 05:53:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5x0-0009GB-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:53:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wz-0001Lt-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wE-0000qF-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:52:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wC-0007kv-Vr; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wA-0002gs-HD; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:52:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878scgkz83.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:41:16 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257294 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There is a free software web-based survey tool named LimeSurvey: Perhaps it would be ethical to use a platform like that, when what we want is a formulaic survey. But I think it is the wrong sort of tool for this job. We had a long discussion on this list, in April and/or May I think, about how to do polling about a simple change in features. What we need is to invite people to explain their preferences or wishes. Sorry, I don't have a pointer to any of those messages so I can't say what to search for, except the words "polling" and "inquiry". -- 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)