Please take the User and Contributor survey

Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Steve George]

Hi,

If you've a few minutes please take the User and Contributor survey:

https://guix.limesurvey.net/

If you select 'Contributor' there's a section for using Guix (I'm sure we all use Guix!) and then an additional section for Contributors. 

If you decide not to complete all questions that's fine, but please make sure you hit the **Submit** button at the end!

The survey is completely anonymous, it's not asking for any personal data and the platform's not collecting any data about the user (e.g. no IP addresses). The only thing I can see is the referring link that the person takes as I couldn't figure out how to turn that off.

Hopefully, we can get a good number of responses to collect the view-points across the Guix community. So go on click it!

Steve / Futurile

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, is there another way to answer the questions for those who block JavaScript or use EWW browser? Maybe you could send me the questions in an e-mail?

-- 
Christopher Howard

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Steve George]

Hi Christopher,

Appreciate you don't want to use Javascript. I did my best to find a platform that was free software without making the whole thing impossible for me to execute.  Unfortunately, I don't think I should take responsibility for entering results by hand. It's enough work 'as a volunteer' designing, running, promoting and collating the results of the survey, without committing to doing manual entry work as well. Maybe someone else on the list - anyone able to help here? - or a friend can do this with you.

Steve / Futurile

On 11 Nov, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, is there another way to answer the questions for those who block JavaScript or use EWW browser? Maybe you could send me the questions in an e-mail?
(...)

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.]

Hi Christopher,

On Tue, Nov 12 2024, Steve George wrote:

> Maybe someone else on the list - anyone able to help here?

I understand where you are coming from and would be happy to enter the
data for you.

Kind regards
Felix

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Luis Felipe]

[-- Attachment #1.1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1276 bytes --]

Hi Christopher,

On 11/11/24 22:11, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, is there another way to answer the questions for those who block JavaScript or use EWW browser? Maybe you could send me the questions in an e-mail?

Ah, the survey seems to depend on JavaScript, yeah.

I'm not sure sending the questions by email would work that well because 
the survey uses branching (it shows some questions depending on previous 
answers). But, for what it's worth, the survey proposal might contain 
part (or all?) of the questions made in the final survey (I didn't check):

https://codeberg.org/futurile/guix-survey/src/branch/main/guix-user-contributor-survey-proposal.md

This makes me wonder, though, whether there is a "survey interchange 
format" around. That way, for future surveys, survey team could create 
surveys in some application locally, publish them for download, people 
would fill them in locally as well using their preferred app, and then 
send them somewhere for collection and analysis.

But I can't find anything like that (from a quick search).

Another thing one could do would be to ask the service (limesurvey.net) 
to support surveys that don't depend on JS. I know there's people who 
live in terminals or whose OS is Emacs :)



[-- Attachment #1.1.2: OpenPGP public key --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-keys, Size: 2881 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 495 bytes --]

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Christopher Howard]

> This makes me wonder, though, whether there is a "survey interchange
> format" around. That way, for future surveys, survey team could create
> surveys in some application locally, publish them for download, people
> would fill them in locally as well using their preferred app, and then
> send them somewhere for collection and analysis.

I love the idea. Obviously it would take some careful thought as far as a format that was easy to parse, easy to generate, easy to validate, and provided for the various advanced features that some people would want, like the conditional reponses. I can't see myself taking the lead on developing such a format, but maybe I could take the lead in developing an Emacs interface for it.

-- 
Christopher Howard

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Christopher Howard]

Thank you, Felix. I can't view all of the questions without the JavaScript, but if Steve or Felix could just copy and paste the questions once into plain text, that would work.

-- 
Christopher Howard

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[Steve George]

On 12 Nov, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Thank you, Felix. I can't view all of the questions without the JavaScript, but if Steve or Felix could just copy and paste the questions once into plain text, that would work.

Thanks for helping Felix. 

Christopher - you can get them all from the file in this repo:

https://codeberg.org/futurile/guix-survey

Steve / Futurile

Re: Please take the User and Contributor survey

[indieterminacy]

Hello Christopher,

On 2024-11-12 15:05, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Thank you, Felix. I can't view all of the questions without the 
> JavaScript, but if Steve or Felix could just copy and paste the 
> questions once into plain text, that would work.

I would mention experimenting with Elinks (I believe the Felinks fork 
was merged again upstream),
as it has both TUI functionality and some utility regarding simpler 
Javascript:
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks

However, the recommendation is with caution, given it appears to not be 
in our common package definitions.
This may have been about historical concerns about bitrot and 
maintainability (it was dormant for some time) but I dont have the time 
to form a contemporary evaluation.

HTH,


Jonathan