From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEOX2-0001dY-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:35:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F0EEE0913; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:33:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.isohunt.com (mail.isohunt.com [208.71.112.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40590E0913 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:33:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4896 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2008 12:33:42 -0000 Received: from S010600022af11287.vc.shawcable.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (24.84.179.214) (smtp-auth username robbat2@isohunt.com, mechanism login) by mail.isohunt.com (qpsmtpd/0.33-dev on beta01) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:33:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 13706 invoked by uid 10000); 14 Jan 2008 04:33:48 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:33:48 -0800 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey Message-ID: <20080114123348.GH5504@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dWYAkE0V1FpFQHQ3" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: a797a732-bb32-4c54-9981-d00f8293cf95 X-Archives-Hash: 8c15806550afd820a70895b478423932 --dWYAkE0V1FpFQHQ3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok, so per the one discussion in #-dev this evening, I'm looking for questions to put on a new user survey. For style of questions, multiple choice (both pick-one and pick-many) or simple integers would be best. However some freeform questions are probably going to end up in there anyway. 'Prefer not to answer' and 'I don't know' should be available in most questions. I don't have the original questions on hand right now (but i'm trying to get them), so used some classical census questions. Some of the ones I threw in are just what came to mind, I'd love to hear more questions and more sections. In the style of census, maybe offering a short form and a long form questionnaire would be useful too? Basic demographics - a bunch of this should probably be optional but recomm= ended - Gender (M, F, and the various other forms here) - Year of birth - # of children?? - How many years have you been using computers? Sociocultural information (again, optional stuff): - Location (country, and free-form city) - Level of education? - Job? (type coding this one is hard, and I'd prefer not to have it) - Income level Computer-general questions: - Do you program? - Checkboxes for some programming languages Usage of Gentoo: - Home - School - Work - Other (usage spawns the following set of questions) Home/School/Work/Other systems: - # of server/desktop/laptop/embedded systems? - Language of system - What arches, stable/testing keywords? - Time spent weekly administering your $TYPE systems - Sync frequency - Do you share your portage tree between systems - Do you share your distfiles between systems - Do you share your binpkgs between systems - Window Manager - Kernel - System specs (maybe follow the Value surveys for some questions) - Distro breakdowns (folks that don't have exclusively Gentoo systems) - Ask about existence and usage of digital camera, web cam, media player, printer, scanner etc with Gentoo (need a list, maybe see the Linux Foundation survey) (Work specific) - How many other users of Gentoo does your organization have? - Name of organization (coupled with the previous question to weed out dupes) Release-related questions: - Should CD media be released at a different rate than stage tarballs? - Desired release frequency for minimal/livecd/GRP/stages (annual, bi-annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly?) - Do you use the installer or install by hand? (need an other field here) - How often do you use the media? - How often do you install Gentoo (using the stage tarballs or the installer)? - Do you use GRP?=20 - Would you like to use GRP in future? - Binhost questions maybe? - Do you use the portage snapshot associated with the release or the latest available snapshot or other? - Do you use a Gentoo derivative? (give a list with an other option) Portage-related questions: (portage team, maybe you can help here?) Distro-related questions (these two are from the original survey, but i added more choices): - Why choose Gentoo - package manager - package repository - customization - optimization - community - free as in beer - free as in speech - other (fill-in) - Distro needs (with a justification text area) - Installer progress - Enterprise-level systems (slow-moving tree) - Embedded linux systems - More/less packages - Hardware support --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --dWYAkE0V1FpFQHQ3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks - The text below is a digital signature. 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