On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:38:40AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > > Very few responses for an universe as big as debian-user, I think. > > > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png > > > > Thanks for that! > > > > For the non-graphical, http://lists.debian.org/stats/ claims 2598 > > subscribers. So 28 responses is 1.08%, which would be a very low > > response rate for a postal survey. > > However: > > $ grep '^From: ' debian-users | sort | uniq -d | wc -l > 270 > > Which means over the past two weeks (I expire mail over 2 weeks old), > there are only 270 people who posted more than once to debian-user. So, > you could say of those 2598 subscribers, only 270 have been "active" the > past two weeks. > > I was still disappointed by the turnout. I had only 16 responses after > 3 days, and only got more by sending another mail urging people to > respond.
Oh now I feel guilty. Without trying to sound flippant, does it concern the 'average' debian user? Is it holding up the release of sarge? I don't subscribe to debian-devel or debian-legal. Should the 'average Joe Blogg debian user' be concerned about these issues. It seems a reasonable knowledge of the DFSG is needed before one can pass comfortable opinions. Does this seem reasonable? What do others think? p.s. I have been using Debian since 'slink' and the only quibble I have is that sometimes the docs can be hard to follow, but this seems to be a Linux problem in general. -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
