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The survey looks good.<br>
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I discovered one small typo and have two suggestions:<br>
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Typo:<br>
<span class="ss-choice-label">QGIS does not enable me to carry out
the critical tasks I need, I need so use other GIS packages<br>
--> ..., I need to use ...<br>
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Suggestion 1:<br>
For the question "</span><span class="ss-choice-label">How often
do you use the QGIS documentation":<br>
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Add an option: "Occasionaly" - so we have something in between
"Monthly" and "Never" - I consider myself to be in that group.<br>
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Suggestion 2:<br>
Ask for domain/industry - like:<br>
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I work for<br>
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- private consulting company<br>
</span><span class="ss-choice-label"><span class="ss-choice-label">-
government (federal level)<br>
</span>- government (province level)<br>
- government (municipal level)<br>
- education (university level)<br>
- education (other)<br>
- military/intelligence<br>
- NGO<br>
- private (hobby)<br>
- anything else?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14.10.2015 09:44, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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Apologies I sent this the the gmail PSC group earner by mistake:<br
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<div>@andreas I incorporated some changes to the form to include
your ideas</div>
<div>@paolo I also added some fields to incorporate your ideas</div>
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<div class="">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:</div>
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<div class="">We could do an embed of it into our website
and market it to the user, dev, community, ux, twitter
etc. mailing lists.</div>
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<div class="">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:</div>
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<div class="">* requiring tests (for GUI changes too)</div>
<div class="">* requiring complete API documentation (for
C++ and Python)</div>
<div class="">* requiring complete end user documentation
(the doc team can then focus on editing docs rather than
composing them)</div>
<div class="">* requiring a changelog when appropriate</div>
<div class="">* requiring existing tests all pass</div>
<div class="">* requiring coding standards adherance</div>
<div class="">* requiring bug fixes be supported with a
regression test wherever possible</div>
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<div class="">(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?</div>
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<div class="">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….</div>
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<div class="">Regards</div>
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