From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmy97-0004x9-6o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:06:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 351A7E0976; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F26E0976 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so4018071ywh.30 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:06:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qVfp60bU/Mzw4opfza2bKJ4X6w1Ppw3ItfL4eyGCoeg=; b=JtdP/NmEIiNQ72OjSuMu/OTJT6M9j5TqHXI17RbJpFFUWl//HSb1Jep7RRgSk2gGqt 2ZHZ38Xcu6eSMz1+RUZ+y7Z6EHFdrDIi6v+YfMwEnu4FlB/zAhNqozxPe0VdN4cn2kkG 5JbZTaN0o177soZSuMSI4V0+IXOHlXYIXejNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uS6CglqHWHB0EAuY5O41UCTXCfXQPXwH70MZkdW8QPt5dZKKcCYw/RINNaXm4xwyqR 9xd9zfoVaD8bs9YH4eiN53MoQiZT07SohRQ93EuaiKQtf/HR1ebjDXREv/efkRY9UT6C M0CLmf9xoh1WhpjCeU5nTExGTVf4NePlqJe7M= Received: by 10.101.9.15 with SMTP id m15mr5586446ani.94.1252883170870; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-40.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d12sm48776688and.9.2009.09.13.16.06.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAD7ADF.9000809@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:06:07 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <4b0462b4d4cc0f26a7b45e6787d51890@localhost> <4AAD0377.8070001@gmail.com> <1252854352.31198.0.camel@centar> <4AAD13AF.7080905@gmail.com> <4AAD4D87.10908@hartwork.org> <4AAD633F.7050003@gmail.com> <20090913235429.116199bf@neon> <4AAD6D66.2060007@gmail.com> <20090914005359.172e248f@mail.netloc.info> In-Reply-To: <20090914005359.172e248f@mail.netloc.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 48a2d291-618a-4787-8c99-2d43cde65d1c X-Archives-Hash: 1bb8673a86bff835ad1e67ee45d2d845 Alex Legler wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> As has been said before, a lot of people don't go to the forums to see >> the poll. I only go to the forums to search if I have a problem >> before posting to the list. There may have been a dozen polls on the >> forums and I would have no idea they happened. >> >> > > That might be /your personal/ behavior. > May be true but someone else mentioned that back when I was going to the forums. I hadn't thought of it until then. > >> Of course, the same could be said about doing a poll on the mailing >> lists as well. Some Gentoo users that use the forums may not even >> know the mailing lists exists. >> >> > > Do the poll in the Forums. Advertise it on planet, some MLs, maybe the > g.o front page, and on IRC. > That way we reach the users that don't go to the forums, but are on > IRC, and the folks that are on the forums but don't know of the MLs and > vice-versa. > > Of course there'll be still people that don't know anything about the > thing, but *shrug*. Those who care, know. And those who don't care, > don't need to know, we have made our effort to reach people. > > >> I'm not sure any poll could really be accurate no matter which means >> is used. >> > > Maybe that is something we just need to live with. Guess all the other > people who do Internet polls do. > > Besides, what can we lose? I don't think Sebastian would mind > preparing and posting the survey. A little more community participation > and a little less time spent talking instead of doing would do us good. > > Alex > I agree that you can only put forth your best effort. I just wouldn't etch the results in stone. Maybe a pencil would be OK tho. Dale :-) :-)