FreeBSD Handbook Improvement Survey
I&#x27;m baffled. Is there some broader context that makes this make sense? From what I can tell, this fellow (the one sending the email) is being paid money to develop priorities for updating the FreeBSD handbook. His response is to send an email to the &#x2F;announcement&#x2F; mailing list, with a list of all the relevant bug reports he could find, asking others to do his job for him?<p>A reasonable survey to send around might be &quot;how often do you use the FreeBSD docs?&quot; &quot;How often do you notice errors in section 1? Section 2? Section 3?&quot; That&#x27;s not what this is. It&#x27;s &quot;here&#x27;s a specific error, and I&#x27;m gonna run a &#x2F;poll&#x2F; to figure out what the priority on fixing it is&quot;.<p>Even ignoring the &quot;that&#x27;s why we hired &#x2F;you&#x2F;&quot; component---this must be a singularly ineffective way to gain reliable information. Very few people are going to reply (because each of the ~100 questions is rather technical!). The responses are therefore going to be self-selected to... I don&#x27;t know, whoever has the time and will to waste on this.