[Qgis-psc] Closing the poll?

René-Luc Dhont rldhont at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 07:43:04 PDT 2015


Thanks, done

Le 28/10/2015 15:32, Tim Sutton a écrit :
> Hi
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:41 PM, René-Luc Dhont <rldhont at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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.
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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