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 1JEX6d-0004H2-Sp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:44:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA2D5E0292; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73ADE0292 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CBD657CC for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:44:27 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey Message-ID: <20080114214427.GC7096@supernova> References: <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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080114123348.GH5504@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: e6940006-e344-4aa4-af92-acc9edc20f5c X-Archives-Hash: 7fb088c473e28df2b6ad2f6c2688bd2c On 04:33 Mon 14 Jan , Robin H. Johnson wrote: > 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. A lot of the suggested questions are hard facts. Some of them will indicate usage to suggest where we might focus, but they mostly won't indicate opinions. This means, for example, that people might say they're using Gentoo for a server but they won't be able to express how well it works. I would like to see a lot more ratings and scales, for example: How well does Gentoo as a whole meet your needs? Perfectly Extremely well Fairly well Not that well Poorly Rate the following, on a 1-10 scale (or a perfect to poor scale) Gentoo's official documentation Unofficial documentation (forums, wiki, etc) Forums Wiki Are you able to find solutions for Gentoo-related issues on Google or other search engines? Always Usually Sometimes Rarely Never Robert Buchholz said we should ask about services usage. I also think we should ask people to rate those services. Other questions, that might address issues like our future goals as a distribution and will probably involve open-ended portions? What do you think of Gentoo's future? "It looks bright" to "I'm installing Ubuntu right now" What is Gentoo best at right now? What should Gentoo be best at? What is Gentoo worst at right now? What should Gentoo stop focusing on? What hurts Gentoo the most? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list