On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Joost Andrae <joost.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > maybe it has other reasons like missing access to the former OOo login on > the Apache infrastructure eg. one thing that went wrong with my OOo account. >
But that doesn't explain the steady decline from 2002 to 2010, for example. But whatever the reason, I think it demonstrates that vote counts from the earlier years are extremely difficult to compare fairly with recent vote counts. And the fact that we don't even have a formal RFE for iOS or Android, even though we get daily requests for this via other means is odd too. It suggests that *how* users give feedback has changed. Maybe in 2002 it was via Bugzilla. But today we get more feedback from Facebook and Twitter than we do Bugzilla. IMHO we need to adapt to how users actually express preferences today rather than assume that they are in tune with a Bugzilla based feedback mechanism from 2002. -Rob > >> There could be several reasons for this: >> >> 1) Older issues are better issues because they were entered by smarter >> people. But then the linear trend is then odd. Did people become >> less smart in such a regular way over the years? >> >> 2) Older issues have been around longer so they have had a longer >> opportunity to be voted on. This very naturally would explain a >> linear trend. >> >> 3) Users have become less interested in or aware of voting. But >> again, it hard to explain the gradual linear trend. Why for example, >> would users in 2010 entering an issue not even vote for their own >> issue 90% of the time, but in 2002 nearly half of those issues >> received votes? >> >> In any case, this is one reason why I take the old vote counts cum >> grano salis. For whatever reason the votes are biased toward older >> issues. > > > Kind regards, Joost > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
