From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:32:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prtixtvx.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JeDvS-0000bN-VG@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:10 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Polling the users is not a matter of simply counting votes.
> The most important part of the answer is "why".
> What is the scenario in which a certain feature is helpful
> or inconvenient? What aspect of it is helpful or
> inconvenient?
Fully agreed.
I suggested simple questions, not simple answers.
> Thus, trying to use better technology to count votes is missing
> the point of the poll.
Yes. The whole point of using the form I proposed is precisely to get
detailed comments and scenarii, not raw yes/no.
If people suggest a list of questions and associated fields for such a
poll, I'd happily draft a new one.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 23:13 gathering data on how people use Emacs Mike Mattie
2008-03-24 23:37 ` paul r
2008-03-25 1:17 ` Bastien
2008-03-25 2:46 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-25 23:18 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-25 23:32 ` Bastien [this message]
2008-03-26 0:51 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 11:28 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-26 21:23 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-26 22:17 ` paul r
2008-03-26 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
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2008-03-26 0:21 Don Saklad
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