On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 02:09:09PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:07:12PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Debian is not about market-share, so losing users is no thread. It is > > only an information for us that we no longer helpful to some of our > > users. > > The problem is that such a message only conveys the information that > *one* specific user will find our distro no long useful. In turn, that > might induce other users to post ack/nack to -devel and that would > hardly help driving technical discussions to conclusion.
I understand that you are in a position that forces you to think about public relations and such, but if I were a DD I would be more happy if DPL was a bit more focused on real problems. > Ultimately, my point is that user feedback is very useful, but we should > find better way to seek it (e.g. explicit polls) than encouraging users > to post their feedback to -devel. I manage packages in Debian. If you want me to stop doing that please exress it more clearly. -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110403124211.GA895@kaiba.homelan
