On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:29:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > >> winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > >> Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > >> who are get bored by this to please pardon me. > >> > ><snip> > >Hi Tshepang, > >I have asked before on debian-devel if debian users could be involved in > >a seperate informal vote like the one from DPL. In that vein, i'd also > >like to see your poll use the Debian voting infrastucture, devotee, to > >produce vote results. I think it would be great to have yearly votes > >like this one or other ones that show what the debian populace think. > >Any thoughts on this? > > Sound like a brilliant idea. I just don't have an idea how it would be > implemented, except that there should be provision for names of real > binaries, instead of names of debian binaries, e.g. one should be able > to mention a love for top instead of being forced to choose procps, > since one would only be exposed to the top binary, or find it to be > the only interesting binary in the procps package. > The voters in this list did do this, disregarding exceptions where > several chose apt instead of apt-get as favourite 'package manager', > for example. > There should probably be a vote on what categories should be > considered, instead of using Debian's menu entries, which doesn't look > suitable at all. Hi Tshepang, It should not be hard to have a program parse a line assuming there is a simple syntax (e.g. A,B,C ...). It seems that certain responses would lend themself to a program name and others to package name (assuming there is a difference -- gimp is a program and a package name). This would take more analysis to find a reasonable way to produce reasonable results. I may use the recent emails as 'test data'. > The ability to vote would be nice, just so that we are not limited by > bug reports on what direction Debian is taking. A lot of us enjoy > working with Debian so much that we feel a part of it, and this would > make this relationship a bit warmer... Many folks have sought this but there has never been a clear path to joining the project other than becomming a debian developer. With the birth of Ubuntu, I, and i'm sure others, have felt that Debian should have a more tangable user presence, sans legal voting rights. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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