[Qgis-psc] Fwd: QGIS Usage survey

Wed Oct 14 02:44:17 PDT 2015

Hi

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> The survey looks good.
>
> I discovered one small typo and have two suggestions:
>
> Typo:
> QGIS does not enable me to carry out the critical tasks I need, I need so
> use other GIS packages
> --> ..., I need to use ...
>

Fixed thanks!

>
> Suggestion 1:
> For the question "How often do you use the QGIS documentation":
>
> Add an option: "Occasionaly" - so we have something in between "Monthly"
> and "Never" - I consider myself to be in that group.
>

Done

>
> Suggestion 2:
> Ask for domain/industry - like:
>
> I work for
>
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> - private consulting company
> - government (federal level)
> - government (province level)
> - government (municipal level)
> - education (university level)
> - education (other)
> - military/intelligence
> - NGO
> - private (hobby)
> - anything else?
>
> 
Good idea, added thanks! I also added one asking how many people in your
organisation use QGIS

Regards

Tim

> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> On 14.10.2015 09:44, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *Tim Sutton < <tim at qgis.org>tim at qgis.org>
> *Subject: **QGIS Usage survey*
> *Date: *14 October 2015 at 06:49:29 SAST
> *To: *psc at qgis.org
>
> Hi all
>
> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> * 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.
>
> (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?
>
> 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….
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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> Tim Sutton
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
> tim at qgis.org
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