[Qgis-psc] Fwd: QGIS Usage survey

[Tim Sutton]

Apologies I sent this the the gmail PSC group earner by mistake:

@andreas I incorporated some changes to the form to include your ideas
@paolo I also added some fields to incorporate your ideas

Regards

Tim

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> From: Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org>
> Subject: QGIS Usage survey
> Date: 14 October 2015 at 06:49:29 SAST
> To: psc at qgis.org
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> Hi all
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> I guess you have all been following along on the discussion started by Andreas about release frequency etc. I was thinking that one issue we have with these types of discussions is that we lack any meaningful data - all the arguments are based on anecdotal usage. I was thinking that it would be good to run a survey like this:
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> http://goo.gl/forms/FPvlBzkquQ <http://goo.gl/forms/FPvlBzkquQ>
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> We could do an embed of it into our website and market it to the user, dev, community, ux, twitter etc. mailing lists.
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> I agree that things can be improved and I am thinking that we should apply basic supply and demand theory: when we have an ‘over supply’ of patches to QGIS, we should make it ‘more expensive’ to contribute them by increasing the minimum criteria for submission for example:
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> * requiring tests (for GUI changes too)
> * requiring complete API documentation (for C++ and Python)
> * requiring complete end user documentation (the doc team can then focus on editing docs rather than composing them)
> * requiring a changelog when appropriate
> * requiring existing tests all pass
> * requiring coding standards adherance
> * requiring bug fixes be supported with a regression test wherever possible
>  *etc.
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> (Yes I realise some items in my list are already in place). Of course this will add more bureaucracy to the process of applying changes to QGIS and we would need to figure out how to manage that cleanly. I think another thing high on our agenda at the project level should be looking to employ one or more developers full time to actually manage this process. Perhaps we can hold a campaign to fund 1 year salary for such a person and try to make that happen?
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> But first lets get some real data about who uses QGIS and what their concerns are. If the PSC is in general agreement, can we put out the survey to do that? Feel free to suggest additions / changes to the survey before I send it out….
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> Regards
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> Tim
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> Tim Sutton
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
tim at qgis.org




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