[lsb-discuss] AppChecker Survey List

[Dallman, John]

Robert Schweikert wrote:

> I think this question does not add value and could be removed.

Seems reasonable to me. 

> I think we should have a text area that allows survey takers to enter
> free form comments w.r.t. their AppChecker experience.

Definitely. Anticipating all possible experiences with survey 
questions is very hard. 

-- 
John Dallman
Parasolid Porting Engineer

Siemens PLM Software
46 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1223-371554
john.dallman at siemens.com
www.siemens.com/plm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Schweikert [mailto:rschweikert at novell.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:00 PM
> To: Dallman, John
> Cc: Brian Proffitt; lsb-discuss
> Subject: Re: [lsb-discuss] AppChecker Survey List
> 
> I think this question does not add value and could be removed.
> 
> I think we should have a text area that allows survey takers to enter
> free form comments w.r.t. their AppChecker experience.
> 
> Robert
> 
> Dallman, John wrote:
> > For AppChecker, I presume? How about this phrasing?
> >
> >
> >
> > "It's more important for AppChecker to  support plenty of versions
of
> the
> >
> > mainstream distributions than for it to support one or two versions
> of lots
> >
> > of distributions."
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > John Dallman
> > Parasolid Porting Engineer
> >
> > Siemens PLM Software
> > 46 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP
> > United Kingdom
> > Tel: +44-1223-371554
> > john.dallman at siemens.com
> > www.siemens.com/plm
> >
> > *From:* brian at proffitt.org [mailto:brian at proffitt.org] *On Behalf Of
> > *Brian Proffitt
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:20 PM
> > *To:* Dallman, John
> > *Cc:* lsb-discuss
> > *Subject:* Re: [lsb-discuss] AppChecker Survey List
> >
> >
> >
> > It's supposed to be "support across multiple versions of a single
> > distribution is more important than support for multiple distros," I
> > believe.
> >
> > BKP
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Dallman, John
> > <john.dallman at siemens.com <mailto:john.dallman at siemens.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Fairly good survey, but this question is unclear:
> >
> >> Cross-version support is more important than cross-distro
> portability.
> >
> > This could mean several things. It could be taken to as "I think
> having
> > different versions of my app be compatible with each other is more
> > important than them being compatible across several distributions",
> > which is two issues that aren't strongly related, except insofar as
> > they both involve development time.
> >
> > It could also be taken as "I think having AppChecker tell me about
> > differences in interfaces used by different versions of my app is
> > more important than what it tells me about my portability between
> > distros".
> >
> > But I doubt either of these readings are what was intended, which
> > is quite unclear to me. Clarification?
> >
> > --
> > John Dallman
> > Parasolid Porting Engineer
> >
> > Siemens PLM Software
> > 46 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP
> > United Kingdom
> > Tel: +44-1223-371554
> > john.dallman at siemens.com <mailto:john.dallman at siemens.com>
> > www.siemens.com/plm <http://www.siemens.com/plm>
> > From: lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org
> > <mailto:lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org>
> > [mailto:lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org
> > <mailto:lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org>] On Behalf
Of
> > Brian Proffitt
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:32 PM
> > To: lsb-discuss
> > Subject: [lsb-discuss] AppChecker Survey List
> >
> >
> > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uyGagZUNkZme0VU8H87ZLw_3d_3d
> >
> > Please note: a link to this survey, with a nice invitation, will be
> > embedded in the final release of AppChecker.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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