[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:41 PM, René-Luc Dhont <rldhont at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> How to close the poll ? Do I have to remove it ?
>

Just go to the form editing page (not the results page) and suspend the
poll as shown in the screenshot below.

[image: Inline image 1]

Regards

Tim


>
> Regards,
> René-Luc
>
>
> Le 27/10/2015 11:42, Tim Sutton a écrit :
>
> Hi René
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, René-Luc Dhont < <rldhont at gmail.com>
> rldhont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Can we fix a date for closing the poll ?
>> I'd like to announce it before.
>>
>>
> ​ Yeah sure - I close the english one...the french one you can close
> whenever you like - I think you can do it yourself from in the form
> designer.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim ​
>
>
>
>> Regards,
>> René-Luc
>>
>>
>> Le 26/10/2015 19:25, Tim Sutton a écrit :
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On 26 Oct 2015, at 17:35, Andreas Neumann < <a.neumann at carto.net>
>> a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I agree with Vincent. It would be better to close the poll and have a new
>> poll later (in a year or two). We will have different questions in the
>> future and a new poll would reflect that.
>>
>> I would also suggest to make only few polls. Polls are usually annoying
>> and if we do them too often, we won't get a lot of feedback. Who really
>> enjoys filling in polls? I would be against doing polls for every release.
>> Only maybe every LTR release or for every second LTR release.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok Ill close it
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 26.10.2015 16:17, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 26/10/2015 15:06, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>
>> Il 26/10/2015 14:11, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>>
>> Or perhaps we should consider refining it based on our experiences from
>> this on and then repost it and leave it permanently online. It would be
>> very useful to e.g. embed it in a widget off QGIS Help -> Tell us what
>> you think menu and let people give us their feedback on a long running
>> basis.
>>
>> good idea. in this case, I'd suggest to reduce the number of questions,
>> and make it more general (once started, changing the question would
>> complicate the stats).
>>
>> I think it would be better to accompany each release of QGIS with a new
>> poll. This has a few advantages :
>>
>> * users who already took the survey will re-post if it is presented as a
>> new survey, but not if it is considered the same
>> * it is easier to analyze answers if they are made in a short time
>> frame. Otherwise you will compare things from different times, with
>> different contexts (and qgis versions)
>> * Different times and different contexts will lead to different
>> questions being interesting to poll. You cannot change questions on a
>> permanent poll, or it gets a real mess
>> * On a general marketing point of view, is it easier to publicize a
>> "new" thing than a "reborn" one. Having a new (versionned) poll per
>> release, and inviting downloaders to take the poll would probably be
>> efficient in terms of participation
>>
>> Vincent
>>
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