[Qgis-psc] QGIS Usage survey

[Otto Dassau]

+1 - thanks Tim!

Otto

Am Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:10:29 +0200
schrieb Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>:

> 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?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
> > 
> > ​​- 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 < <mailto:tim at qgis.org>tim at qgis.org
> >>> <mailto:tim at qgis.org>> Subject: QGIS Usage survey
> >>> Date: 14 October 2015 at 06:49:29 SAST
> >>> To: psc at qgis.org <mailto: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 <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
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Tim Sutton
> >>> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
> >>> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Tim Sutton
> >> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member
> >> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>