Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 4:27 PM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Adrien Brochard" <abrochard@gmx.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> * Adrien Brochard <abrochard@gmx.com> [2020-12-20 07:24]:
> > > Majority of users for the survey, if I remember well, came from
> > > Reddit. There was description where it was marketed mostly.
> > >
> > > Thus survey is not general Emacs survey, it is survey of mostly Reddit
> > > users who may be or probably are more skillful.
> >
> > What makes you think that people coming from the Reddit channel are more
> > skillful? If someone googles an Emacs question, getting directed to
> > r/emacs and finding the survey there is pretty likely.
>
> "who may be or probably", see above to understand the intended
> meaning.
>
> It is a survey that targeted intentionally or not intentionally just a
> subset of Emacs users using Reddit and few other popular websites.
>
> Those who speak about Emacs on reddit in my opinion are minimally
> slightly advanced users, as they discuss about Emacs.
>
> I was using Emacs for years without discussing with anybody. Debian
> popularity contest says that there is much larger number of Emacs
> users.
>
> The true representative survey information could be obtained only
> within Emacs itself under condition that survey is presented straight
> to Emacs user.

I wonder whether the survey stems from lack of vision of emacs admin and 
developers.
For instance, Gcc has a Development Plan.  Suggestions for changes to the plan 
are
discussed on the Gcc mailing list and can be approved or rejected by the Gcc 
Steering
Committee. How about Emacs?

> Jean