[mythtv-users] FLOSS MC Survey closing date

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Aug 6 18:53:19 UTC 2008


On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Marc Randolph wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:24 AM, John Drescher  
> <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Giovani Spagnolo
>> <giovani at telematicsfreedom.org> wrote:
>>> Thank you everyone for your participation and high quality  
>>> responses.
>>> I'd like to inform we'll close surveys on September 2nd, to allow  
>>> some
>>> more time for less active communities yet with low participation.
>>>
>>> Activity and more info on our blog:
>>> http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/2008/08/06/floss-survey-will-close-september-2nd
>>>
>>
>> I started answering that but a lot of the (How many of X )  
>> questions I
>> do not know the answer so I did not submit.
>
> I have to admit I don't understand the purpose of this at all.
>
> The survey appears to ask about the facts of MythTV (how many file
> formats, etc), rather than the opinions about MythTV.  Facts can be
> collected from the MythTV web site(s) or having one person fill out
> the survey - you don't need to survey 5 or 20 people.  All you're
> doing is wasting the time of a lot of people.
>
>   Marc

I started looking at the survey, thought the same thing, and closed  
the browser window. Why do I need to spend my time looking up info in  
the wiki to tell someone how many video format it supports? I do that  
enough when people ask questions and I know I saw the answer in the  
wiki somewhere. :)


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