[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

jesse