On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:54, Patrick Näf wrote: > I dare to ask the question: is this really necessary? > > I find a 30-50 questions survey repulsive! In my eyes it makes fink > begin to look like, well, a commercial product. Maybe I have always > looked the other way when I encountered one, but after thinking for 30 > seconds I couldn't come up with another Open Source project that > surveys its users. > > I once more ask the question: what do you need this data for? I would > also be interested to hear from Max Horn and other core people if this > is something coordinated.
I can't say what specifically it is, but the whole survey thing kind of makes me feel uneasy. I feel like my hobby is being turned into a product... I appreciate that David is wanting to jump in and do PR-type stuff, and get the word out, and work on documentation, but at the same time I can't help but feel like we're pushing it before we're ready for more attention than we're already getting. There's still plenty to do before Fink is a 1.0 program. As for what it's needed for, David's reasons for doing this is to get some more official support, or at least acknowledgement, from Apple. I think it would be great to see Apple support us more officially. There are occasional mentions of Fink, but for the most part, we've been ignored, even though we bring thousands of apps to MacOSX. So my answer is, "I don't know." Part of me loves it, and part of me is worried by it. Maybe we should have a survey as to whether Fink users should have a survey or not. =D ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
