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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.92 X-Spam-Score: -1.92 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 1D6633271F X-Migadu-Scanner: mx10.migadu.com X-TUID: ghhPIsU3Btq3 On 2024-11-01 08:59, Wilko Meyer wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve George 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