[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Sinner from the Prairy sinnerbofh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 16:56:54 CEST 2010


Tux99 wrote:

> I guess the old rule of polls applies:
> depending on how you formulate the poll question and the description of
> the options you can hugely influence the results...

This is so true.

I follow the politics blog FiveThirtyEight (warning! statistics nerd alert 
activated!) and again and again, strange-resulting polls are caused by 
poorly formulated questions, "guided" answers or lack of proper options.

> Personally I think a poll without educating everyone about what exactly
> each choice would mean is useless. We first need to elaborate detailed
> alternatives before anyone can make an informed choice.

This is mostly what Romain has been asking: someone to provide clear 
definitions of what Rolling Release is. And why Backports does not work.


Salut,
Sinner



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