Re: Running a Guix User and Contributor survey

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>]

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Hi,

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:03:26 +0000
Steve George <steve@futurile.net> wrote:


Here's some feedback on the proposal below.

> # Audience
> The audience for this survey are all Guix users and contributors
> [^1]. This means:
> 
> - Guix user: anyone who uses all or part of Guix, whether as their
> operating system or hosted on another GNU/Linux distro.
> - Guix contributor: anyone who sends changes (patches) to the
> project. This includes code changes, but also other improvements
> including documentation, design and translation. This is an extensive
> group beyond those with commit rights.
> - Guix community: the totality of both groups.
Most Guix contributors are also users, so this may need to be reflected
in some ways.

> **Q1. How knowledgeable a Linux user are you?**
GNU/Linux would probably be better given the audience here.

>   - an official GNU FSF (Free Software Foundation) project
The distribution is certified by the FSF but it's a GNU package. The
FSF doesn't maintain the Guix package though.

So maybe this could be better:
> **Q5. Why were you initially interested in Guix?**
[...]
> An FSF certified 100% free software distribution.

I'm also unsure if it should be added to the list or not but being able
to install software on top of another distribution is a common use case
so that might be a reason to use it. And this can be done for a wide
variety of reasons (ship software to users, use it in some QA process,
etc).

I'm also aware that this option is also included in a question on how
we use Guix.

Denis.

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