There was no noticeable drop in the past 2 weeks, but it took a while to interpret the data and account for the normal peaks and valleys, so we did not have any information until early this week.
-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 5:15:05 PM Subject: Re: "Governed by meritocracy"? On Apr 9, 2014, at 17:46, Sheeri Cabral <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? Was there a noticeable drop in users during the initial boycott? If so, do you think it affected Brendan's decision to step down? And why did no one talk about that number? I don't see any reason to think that a 40,000+ drop in users will change anything this time around. I especially don't like this type of reasoning because it reinforces the idea that attacking people directly is a viable way to get what you want (it's easier than getting 40k people to stop using their browser), and people doing that is what put us in the spot we are now. -- reuben _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
