On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 1:48 PM Japheth Cleaver <clea...@terabithia.org> wrote:
> On 1/13/2019 10:19 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 07:51:34PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >>> Side note, I was at a loss of what you were getting at. There were > several > >>> ways it could be interpreted and has been used by people in the past to > >>> mean different things. > >> I think John's statement was pretty clear: The artificial distinction > >> between "Editions" and "Spins" needs to go away. > >> > >>> The problem is that there is an inherent conflict of resources here. > When > >>> we put everything on the download pages, everyone including the spin > >>> owners say it was too confusing. > > The issue of which spins/editions are promoted is orthogonal to the > > issue of counting. After all, counting just reflects the actual > > frequency of installations, not the reasons for it. > > > > But counting may provide a fresh look at this issue. We'll have much > > better data which spins/editions are used. If it turns out that KDE is > > more popular than previous statistics showed, or that KDE has a higher > > retention rate (the number of short-lived installations is low > > suggesting that users "like it if they see it"), this would be a > > strong argument to make the KDE spin more visible. > > > > Zbyszek > > Relying on use-data here seems counter-intuitive. Shouldn't the decision > be made based on project first principles or community goals first, with > visibility and marketing effort being put in subsequent to that to meet > those goals? > It is important for the community/project goals to align with what people actually want. -Dan
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