On 2024-11-01 08:59, Wilko Meyer wrote:
Hi Steve,
Steve George <st...@futurile.net> writes:
I've designed a 'Guix User and Contributor Survey' which I'd like to
run to
explore what users love about Guix, and how contributors interact
with the project. I would love feedback on it.
Thanks for putting work into this, that's awesome! In terms of general
feedback: There was a general discussion on surveys[0] a year ago, I'd
like to highlight this mail[1] by Katherine in particular, as it
contains excellent points on survey/questionnaire design and good
practices.
Regarding your proposed questionnaire: I think that it would benefit
from asking about the level of Guile proficiency/if there's
prior-experience with lisp family languages/if people learned Guile
because of Guix.
* 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.
It could be feasible to categorize questions into two boxes:
- Questions we want to track over time as we want to track how
responses
change over the years, that have to be iterated yearly.
- Questions we want to ask once/every few years, as we want to work
with
a snapshot in time instead of longterm tracking answers in short
iterations.
and then have a annual/biennial survey, always asking all questions
from
the first box, and then split-up questions from the second box
throughout the years.
If it is to be a biennial survey it may be useful to allow people to
upload previous questionaires,
so that they can be parsed for populating new survey responses.
I can provide a parser prior to the subsequent polling in TXR if that
helps.
* If anyone has skills/experience in analysing results and would like
to get
involved I would love help.
Don't know yet what my timebudget will look like when the results are
in, but generally I'd be available for this (if time permits)!
[0]:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09/msg00402.html
[1]:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09/msg00481.html
