Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Timothy <tec@tecosaur.net> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> If any of you are wondering what happened to this, it has not been forgotten
> about! My very competitive todo list just pushed this on the backburner for a
> while.
>
> I’m returning to this now though, and hopefully will start testing the
> deployment and promoting the survey shortly (probably over the next few weeks).
>
> If anybody has last-minute “I really think you should change/add/remove this
> question” feedback, now would be the time to mention it. I think the current
> state of affairs is fairly decent though, and I don’t think it would be worth
> bikeshedding the questions 😛 — we can always refine/improve next year.
>
> The current set of questions:
> <https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-survey/blob/master/config/survey.jl>

Another thing that came to mind is that the survey appears to implicitly
assume that Emacs is a participants main or even only editor.  I know
plenty of people where this is not the case, who perhaps use Emacs only
for Org, Magit or for some other mode.  So perhaps questions like

  "Which editor did you use before you started using Emacs?",

should be generalised to

  "Which editor do/did you use besides Emacs?",

and a questions could be added to the effect of "How frequently do you
use Emacs a week?", "Where does Emacs fall short?".