Re: [Python-Dev] contributors survey?

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:12:14 -0500 Jesse Noller wrote:

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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Hello,

In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2011-February/001340.html, I was asking whether it would be useful to make a survey of past contributors, as in:

       First, we did a survey of all our past developers who had left        the project, asking them why they had left. This was just a        free-form survey, allowing people to answer any way they wanted.

(from the quoted article in the thread linked above)

Since I didn't get any answer, I wonder if the idea simply got overlooked, or if there's no need at all.

Regards

Antoine.

I think doing a survey like this is a *really* good idea. We have an account at our disposal (as the PSF) at http://www.surveymonkey.com/ which we use for PyCon feedback. Maybe we can leverage that, if we can come up with good questions?

Following the example given in the original article, I was considering a single freeform question: "why did you stop contributing after your last patch to CPython?" (of course, that text should be decorated with a greeting and an introduction and the wording can be improved). Regards Antoine.