From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to poll the users Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87imhw431x.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mu78huhx.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> <877dy91mb0.fsf@yahoo.com> <0ce06d95-0593-bc55-983f-6b6601503a1a@yandex.ru> <38f07534-f9db-64eb-5256-e73bcebafef4@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="126296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, seb@k-7.ch, pcr910303@icloud.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 05:38:45 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 1jSBeP-000Wkc-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBeO-0007hw-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBdZ-0006Pq-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBdZ-0006Ak-8S; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBdY-0007fC-Bj; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:37:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <38f07534-f9db-64eb-5256-e73bcebafef4@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:31:33 +0300) 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:247745 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. ]]] > > * Mail to info-gnu-emacs and help-gnu-emacs, and any other suitable > > place, presenting the proposed change in sufficient detail that people > > can judge it, and where to email the response, as well as what kind of > > information we seek. > How many subscribers do these mailing lists have? I don't know. Do you? We could ask the FSF sysadmins. > For comparison, Those two lists are the only ways I know of to reach Emacs users. I don't know of any other suitable places, but it is good to find more. the StackOverflow surveys we've seen mentioned in this > thread count about 4000 dedicated Emacs users (that filled out the > survey). The Emacs StackExchange site has around 20'000 registered > users. The Emacs subreddit has almost 40'000 subscribers. I have never used StackExchange or Reddit, and I don't know how they are structured. Are you suggesting them as additional places to send our polls to? Have you got any other suggestions of places? -- 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)