Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > That is true, but it may not be a problem.  To get useful results, we
  > > don't need most of the community to switch.  It is enough to get
  > > answers from a variety of users.

  > Which users should they be, and how do we find them and reach out to
  > them?

One obvious way is to post an announcement on various mailing lists,
asking people to repost it.  People will respond.

  > They should definitely be users who have the just-released version
  > installed, which is why I mentioned the observation that the process
  > of upgrading to a new version is slow and takes many moons.

That's why I suggest waiting before we ask.

  > Let's say we have half a dozen of such features, and we need to wait
  > for the answers for a few months about each one of them.  Who can have
  > a long enough attention span to manage such a polling system?

I propose a distributed system which needs no management.  The people
who advocate changing the default to enable a given feature will
probably speak up about it.  We just need a rule about the minimum
time to wait after the release.

If they don't speak up, that suggests that having the new option is
sufficient ;-}.

  >  who can
  > keep track of all those features even though we could switch branches
  > and release a couple of versions in-between?

Those little turns in the road won't intefere with their memory of
where they want to go.


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