Bug#727708: CTTE and Developer Buy-in [Re: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion]
]] Colin Watson
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 05:50:59PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > > and I think it'd be a shame if we ended up losing or demotivating a
> > > good bunch of good developers again.
> >
> > Pretty much every time the CTTE makes a ruling, someone is going to be
> > annoyed or demotivated. Easy, non-contentious decisions never make it to
> > us.
> >
> > If there are concrete ways we can be better at making sure that it's
> > clear developers concerns are being heard and taken into account which
> > we are not already doing, I'd certainly like to hear them.
>
> Is there any useful way we could take a reasonably quick non-binding
> straw poll of developers? Sort of an "if we voted a particular way, is
> it likely that we would be on the wrong side of developer opinion".
In addition to the popcon numbers referenced from Sjoerd, we have the
numbers from Michael's systemd survey in May 2013. The numbers there
were 35%/30%/33% for yes/dunno/no for systemd as default init when only
counting DD/DMs/package maintainers
Of course, those numbers might have changed since then.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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