On 1/13/2019 10:19 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 07:51:34PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> Side note, I was at a loss of what you were getting at. There were several
>> ways it could be interpreted and has been used by people in the past to
>> mean different things.
> I think John's statement was pretty clear: The artificial distinction
> between "Editions" and "Spins" needs to go away.
>
>> The problem is that there is an inherent conflict of resources here. When
>> we put everything on the download pages, everyone including the spin
>> owners say it was too confusing.
The issue of which spins/editions are promoted is orthogonal to the
issue of counting. After all, counting just reflects the actual
frequency of installations, not the reasons for it.
But counting may provide a fresh look at this issue. We'll have much
better data which spins/editions are used. If it turns out that KDE is
more popular than previous statistics showed, or that KDE has a higher
retention rate (the number of short-lived installations is low
suggesting that users "like it if they see it"), this would be a
strong argument to make the KDE spin more visible.
Zbyszek
Relying on use-data here seems counter-intuitive. Shouldn't the decision
be made based on project first principles or community goals first, with
visibility and marketing effort being put in subsequent to that to meet
those goals?
-jc