[Qgis-psc] QGIS Usage survey

Wed Oct 14 14:10:04 PDT 2015

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Unless there are further comments, are you all ok for me to go ahead and
> send this out tomorrow? Will you please help by rebroadcasting the survey
> call blog post I will write to your twitter / Facebook etc followers?
>

+1 Thanks Tim!

>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
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> On 14 Oct 2015, at 11:44, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
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>>
>> 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.
>>
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> Done
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>> Suggestion 2:
>> Ask for domain/industry - like:
>>
>> I work for
>>
>> 
>> - 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:
>>
>> *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
>>
>> 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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>> Tim Sutton
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