There's no doubt that people are unhappy. However, at least as of earlier this week, we haven't actually seen a drop in Firefox usage (certainly not 40,000+ users). So either people are still using Firefox, or we are having about the same numbers of people use Firefox more.
I was an activist in a previous life, and I can tell you that lots of people swarm behind an idea (*especially* a boycott) but don't necessarily *act* on that idea. Lots of people want talk and rant and get things off their chest, because that's their way of dealing with it. On the one hand, someone from Engagement should talk to the petitioners and explain that we did not fire Brendan or coerce him to resign. On the other hand, if it's not really affecting usage, is it worth it? -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Systems DB Team Senior DB Admin/Architect Mozilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reuben Morais" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:38:46 PM Subject: Re: "Governed by meritocracy"? On Apr 9, 2014, at 17:04, »Q« <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know how to measure these things either, but there are some > numbers available. > > I guess (and it's only a guess) that most of the people upset about > Eich's appointment as CEO signed the Credo petition. Credo has removed > the petition, but it was widely reported (ugh, that phrase again) that > there were ~75,000 signatures before he resigned. > > I do *not* think most people upset in the wake of his resignation have > found <https://input.mozilla.org/>, and I can't guess what percentage > of them have. > > As soon as he resigned, the number of people clicking the sad face > spiked dramatically. For Apr. 4-8, inclusive, there are ~45,500 > messages, 94% sad, so ~42,800 sad messages. Subtracting the baseline > ~1,500 sad/day leaves ~35,300 upset. That number continues to rise. There's a petition with 42,000 signatures at http://www.citizengo.org/en/6212-take-no-zilla-pledge -- reuben _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
