On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 07:22 -0500, Sean Dague wrote: > On 01/15/2014 10:41 PM, Tom Fifield wrote: > > On 15/01/14 22:02, Russell Bryant wrote: > >> On 01/13/2014 08:52 PM, Tom Fifield wrote: > >>> According to the most recent user survey, more than 30% of users consume > >>> the XML API. > >> > >> Do you have a reference with more detail on this? Simply "30%" doesn't > >> really mean much without more detail on what the question was, what the > >> choices where, how many answered the question, etc ... > > > > Survey questions can of course be found at > > https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/. This particular one was found on > > the second page of the "About your OpenStack Deployments" section: > > > > """ > > What formats do you use for the API? > > [X] XML > > [X] JSON > > """ > > > > From the data from 2013-10-11: > > > > 30.67% of survey takers ticked XML > > 69.32% of survey takers ticked JSON > > > > of course this question allowed overlap - the ticking of both boxes. The > > overlap is 17.17% (or, if you prefer - 13.49% "pure" XML, and 52% "pure" > > JSON) > > > > > > 83% of deployments answered this question. As a comparison, this is a > > similar number to how many answered the "hypervisors" question (87%). > > That also assumes that survey responders understood the question the way > we are interpreting it. The actual question should have been: > > What toolkits do you use to interface with the OpenStack API? > * OpenStack command line (i.e. nova cli) > * openstack python libraries > * jclouds > * deltacloud > ... > * other - please specify > * none - wrote our own > > If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what wire > format are you using? > * JSON > * XML > > If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what > programming language did you write it in? > * C/C++ > * C# > * Java > * Python > * Perl > * PHP > * Ruby > * Other (please specify) > > Because the question as worded assumes far too much shared context and > understanding in what we were looking for. We all understood what we > wanted, but didn't unroll that in a specific enough way in the user survey.
Well said, Sean. The above is a great set of questions to ask in the next user survey (or sooner?). Best, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
