On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.jo...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> I have a dumb question, please bear with me. Will this survey reveal > answers to the following questions – > > 1. How diverse are the contributors that are not committers yet? > Unless it is changed, no it will not. Only committers were surveyed the last time. > 2. How diverse are the contributors being nominated for committership? > Maybe. In its current form, Question #1 asks: "How long have you been involved with any Apache project community?" Other questions are designed to "suss out" diversity. Subdividing answers based on the first question could provide this information if we get enough respondents to be statistically significant. > I think, that will help understanding the funnel. Comments? > I'm not sure how to reach contributors who are not committers unless we're talking about mailing the dev lists of all the projects. People have done this before, and the backlash it generates is larger each time. Made worse by the fact that some of those surveys have been very poorly designed. And even if we were to do something like this, we'd have the problem of self-selection to deal with. Which we already have for committers, but my gut tells me it'd be worse for contributors. I think there might be better ways to understand the funnel, using Kibble. Best, Myrle
