OT: better than polls [WAS: roadmap status update/update request]

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke gnu org>]

Havoc Pennington writes:

> I've seen hundreds of web polls and read a mind-blowing number of
> articles on Slashdot, LWN, LinuxToday, OSNews, etc. My estimate of
> overlap of the priorities of posters to these sites with Red Hat's
> enterprise customers is 5%. My estimate of the overlap of the priorities
> of posters to these sites with "average corporate or home desktop user"
> is 5%. I am not exaggerating.

Hmm, we were thinking of web polls as a better means of gathering
interesting/important feature requests than [griped] user postings on
the mailing list.  Maybe that would still be a worthwile effort, but
not the best way to go.

> We do, but we have better ways to find out than web polls.

Now that is interesting.  Would you want to share some of those better
ways with two guys (cc: Han-Wen an me) who are seeking to start-up a
small business around LilyPond support?

Greetings,
Jan.

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