Re: Running a Guix User and Contributor survey

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

On 30 Oct, Luis Felipe wrote:
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> On 30/10/24 12:03, Steve George wrote:
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> I gave it a first look, and I want to see the results already :)

Thank-you, appreciate you going through it.

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> > * 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.
> 
> Personally, I think it is a bit long. Would it make sense to make it two
> surveys instead, one for users and one for contributors?
> 
> I'm thinking that if it is perceived as lengthy, people might omit the
> free-form questions at the end or be too tired to express themselves as
> they'd like to.
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Yeah, I have the same concern. I'm going to have a look at it when it's
laid-up as a questionnaire and see how it seems for filling it out. I'm not
sure about splitting it up - I'll give it some serious thought though as your
reaction is what I was worrying about.

> > * I'm sure there are alternative word options that might be clearer, along with
> > the inevitable typos: either a PR (it's on Codeberg where anyone can create an
> > account) or a patch would be welcome.
> 
> I only noticed one typo:
> 
> + decison making → decision making
> 
> And two trifles⸮:
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> 1. "Guixers" used to refer to "Guix denizens". I would omit it because, to
> my knowledge, the community hasn't decided on an English demonym yet (/me
> runs and takes cover).
> 2. Use of "Linux" in the first and other questions to refer to GNU/Linux
> distributions in general. I'd use the latter, to follow the same convention
> used in Guix documentation.

Thanks for these.

Futurile / Steve