At 13:20 2003/07/24, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:12, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
I find these conversations on mailing lists a bit frustrating, because
some people will join in and be very vocal about their specific needs,
which may or may not match what 99% of people use. [not focusing this
at Rober specifically, but in general]. How can we, as possible
contributors to the new Red Hat Linux Project, really get a feel for
what the majority of people want? If only the most vocal come to the
mailing lists, or bugzilla, and make their specific needs know, won't
the silent majority be ignored?
The trouble, I suppose, is that unless you take a stab at defining what the
silent majority likes/wants, people posting to mailing lists like this one
won't know ahead of time whether their wishlists are "already spoken for"
or "clearly in the minority". Trying to do that would just ensure that you
get no useful feedback from anyone, since the ones who see their views
already represented in your list won't feel the need to say anything, and
the ones who *don't* see their views represented will get the impression
that their views aren't welcome.
From my perspective as an old-time sysadmin, I find it hard to imagine
that I'm truly in the