[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

Harold Aling geany at xxxxx
Thu Nov 14 13:14:27 UTC 2013


On 14 November 2013 13:51, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> Am 14.11.2013 01:18, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>
>> It's a great idea but as you mentioned on IRC, we really have no way to
>> know how representative subscribers to the users list are. For example
>> maybe only X out of every X^Y Geany users subscribes to the mailing
>> list, so even if we ask and N people say one thing, still the vast
>> majority of users might be indifferent or completely disagree if they
>> were asked/subscribed.
>
> Well... We got >100k installations on Ubuntu and Debian together
> (popcon).

If you would use my "90% rule" you'll need 11k+ Windows users to
justify full support and the same experience across platforms.

You might also say that Windows-support must live in "contrib", and
not "core" ...

Btw: 90% is just a random-ish number.

-H-


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