Re: Emacs Survey 2022 - design

[Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>]

[செவ்வாய் மே 17, 2022] Timothy wrote:

Hello Timothy,

> Hello, 
>
> I’ve recently been chatting with Adrien Brochard (who ran the 2020 Emacs survey), and I’m pushing for a 2022 Emacs
> survey. 
>
> Even with detailed telemetry (urgh) it can be hard to understand the range of experiences and opinions users have. As such,
> particularly once we have past surveys to reference and some consistent questions, I see quite a bit of value in helping: 
>
> 1 Emacs developers,
> 2 Emacs package developers/maintainers,
> 3 The Emacs community itself
>
> better understand the Emacs community. 
>
> Of course, this being a fiercely FOSS community, the situation with survey platforms leaves quite a bit to be desired. To resolve
> this issue, I spent some time last year writing a 100% FOSS, survey framework which is completely functional without any JS.
> I have attached some screenshots of it to this email. 
>
> It would be good to maximise the utility of the survey to the three groups mentioned earlier. In this vein I hope some of you,
> emacs-devel, would be willing to provide some feedback on the survey :) 
>
> Attached you may find the current draft survey questions, both as survey-questions.org file and the configuration file used by
> my survey framework, survey.jl. If you’d like, you can even try running the survey locally. 
>
> Lastly, if any of you would like to chat about this over IRC you can find me as “tecosaur” on libera.chat, and
> @tecosaur:matrix.org over on Matrix. 
>
> All the best,
> Timothy 

I just have a few comments on the questions,

Maybe we should have a "none" option in "** Which languages do you
program (in Emacs) in? :MultiSelect:Mandatory:"?  I don't really use
Emacs to program except in Elisp and an occasional shell script or two.
I suspect there might be people who exclusively use it for
non-programming purposes.

A nit: in "** Do you use a terminal emulator in Emacs?
:MultiSelect:Mandatory:", you have shell and eshell as options but they
aren't terminal emulators are they?

"** Do you use a spell checker in Emacs? :RadioSelect:Mandatory:":
I think you should add ispell (M-$) to the list as well.

"** Do you use any selection packages? :MultiSelect:Mandatory:":
Marginalia is not a selection package, I think the same goes for
consult?  Perhaps, users of those packages can comment on this.