Dear colleagues,
I did a statistical analysis of the outcome of the GR “Init systems and systemd”:
https://github.com/rlaboiss/debian-gr-systemd-2019
The abstract of this study is below.
All the best,
Rafael Laboissière
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Statistical analysis of the Debian General Resolution “Init systems and
systemd” 2019
Copyright © 2020 Rafael Laboissière <raf...@debian.org>
Abstract: In this study, we present a statistical analysis of the
Debian General Resolution: “Init systems and systemd” 2019. Exploratory
Factorial Analysis was applied to the tally data, considering each option
as a variable and the ranks cast in the ballot as the values for each
option. The goal of this study is to understand both the structure of the
choices made by the Debian Developers community and how the available
options were perceived, in relation to each other. Four factors were
obtained from the analysis. The first one can be interpreted as “systemd
vs. multiple init implementations”. The second one could be related to
the “desire for community cohesion”. The third one follows the result of
the Condorcet outcome. Polarization of the community is particularly
evidenced by the distribution of scores along the third factor. This
study sheds some lights on the subtleties of the voters’ behavior and
goes beyond the Condorcet result based on the outranking matrix.
