Dear Cassandra contributor, We are doing research on understanding how developers manage a special kind of Technical Debt in *Java.*
We kindly ask 15-20 minutes of your time to fill out our survey. To help you decide whether to fill it in, we clarify two points. “Why should I answer this survey?” Your participation is essential for us to correctly understand how developers manage Technical Debt. “What is in it for me?” Your valuable contributions to *Cassandra* are part of the information we analyzed for this study. Thus, if you help us further by answering this survey, there are two immediate benefits: - you help to improve the efficiency of maintaining the quality of *Cassandra*. - the results will be used to propose recommendations to manage technical debt and create tool support. Here is the link to the survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebaVkO0SyHog7tPohoQ6nrsC_ZiRRFIXIx8egUbwfjpDzKsA/viewform?usp=sf_link> . Thank you for your time and attention. Kind regards, Jie Tan, Daniel Feitosa and Paris Avgeriou Software Engineering and Architecture group <http://www.cs.rug.nl/search> Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Groningen, the Netherlands
