From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gathering data on how people use Emacs Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080324161300.191df4b6@reforged> <87bq531u1s.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206469938 1167 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2008 18:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 19:32:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JeDwp-0004W2-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeDwE-0003cE-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeDvf-0003Lc-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JeDvd-0003Kq-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JeDvd-0003Kj-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeDvd-0007T4-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JeDvS-0000bN-VG; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:31:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bq531u1s.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (message from Bastien on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:17:19 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93428 Archived-At: 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? Thus, trying to use better technology to count votes is missing the point of the poll.