RE: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Drew Adams]

> > > But if you have to have mail configured, you're also only going to have
> > > a specific subset of all users.
> >
> > Nothing _limits_ input to email.  That's all we handle today, and we
> > should at least continue to handle such input.  But if we want to
> > entertain supporting other input methods (smoke signals...
> > whatever), that's not impossible.
> 
> Is hard for me to understand the above.

It's hard for me to understand what you write, below.

My point there was only that nothing limits acceptance
of user input only in the form of email.  That's all.

To be clear, I'm in favor of continuing to accept
input by email.  I'm strongly in favor of that.
And in particular by `report-emacs-bug'.

I was just saying that nothing prevents accepting
feedback in other ways.  Of course, some ways would
no doubt require some support development.  (Something
like snail mail would not.)

> Let me say that trends changed, there are now more people using
> Internet, and there are more people using Internet without email or
> not knowing what email does, or having email, but never using it and
> not knowing what it does, including people having email and using it
> exclusively on their mobile devices, not knowing they can use it from
> computers.
> 
> Suspicious is also Windows and other systems but Unix-like systems,
> I did not try, I just don't know how would report-emacs-bug function
> on Windows, I doubt it is well integrated.
> 
> I would just make it as a form, either as Emacs forms from forms.el
> library, plus some POST to URL, or as HTML form by using eww.
> 
> In such form, user could enter email, but if user does not have email,
> need not enter such, neither the name. User could still communicate,
> it would be one way, but better some opinions then none, hey.