Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I believe that it is too late for such hopes, and that a majority of
  > Emacs users know about Melpa and/or uses it.

You may be right, but it is hard to tell.  We don't know what fraction
of Emacs users are even aware that there is such a thing as
"packages".

The survey that is now being done will not tell us, because it will be
publicized in certain forums so it will reflect the subset of users
that use those forums -- not a representative sample of all users.  I
woudl expoect that there is another population of users which has no
contact with those forums or startup kits.

So you might be right, but we don't know if that is actually so.

It makes a difference.  If we KNEW that almost all users of Emacs did
know about Melpa, that would change our policy towards it.  But it
would be an own-goal to assume, erroneously that they already know and
as a result end up being the ones to tell them.

Can you change emacswiki to state the two things that are bad
about Melpa?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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