On 30 Oct, Luis Felipe wrote: (...) > On 30/10/24 12:03, Steve George wrote: (...) > I gave it a first look, and I want to see the results already :)
Thank-you, appreciate you going through it. (...) > > * The tricky part of running a survey is keeping it to a reasonable length, > > you > > quickly find there's lots you'd love to know, but the balancing factor is > > the > > more questions someone has to answer the lower the completion rate! Ideas on > > how to shorten the design while keeping the same areas of enquiry would be > > welcome. > > Personally, I think it is a bit long. Would it make sense to make it two > surveys instead, one for users and one for contributors? > > I'm thinking that if it is perceived as lengthy, people might omit the > free-form questions at the end or be too tired to express themselves as > they'd like to. (...) Yeah, I have the same concern. I'm going to have a look at it when it's laid-up as a questionnaire and see how it seems for filling it out. I'm not sure about splitting it up - I'll give it some serious thought though as your reaction is what I was worrying about. > > * I'm sure there are alternative word options that might be clearer, along > > with > > the inevitable typos: either a PR (it's on Codeberg where anyone can create > > an > > account) or a patch would be welcome. > > I only noticed one typo: > > + decison making → decision making > > And two trifles⸮: > > 1. "Guixers" used to refer to "Guix denizens". I would omit it because, to > my knowledge, the community hasn't decided on an English demonym yet (/me > runs and takes cover). > 2. Use of "Linux" in the first and other questions to refer to GNU/Linux > distributions in general. I'd use the latter, to follow the same convention > used in Guix documentation. Thanks for these. Futurile / Steve
