[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > 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).

Does anybody ever stop contributing?  Occasionally, yes, but in most
cases it's just that this interval between explicit contributions
(usually patches, but also reviews, PEPs, mailing list posting, bug
reports, ...) is longer than the period since the last one. :-)

How about

    Hello.  We [the PSF?] would like to thank you for your past
    patches to CPython, and take this opportunity to learn something
    about how to improve our workflow.  We would appreciate your
    cooperation in answering the following question.

    It has been more than one year since your last patch to CPython.
    We would like to understand why it's been so long [, and if there
    is anything we could do to help you contribute patches more
    frequently].

The clause in brackets is outside the scope of Antoine's wording, but
I assume that's where we're going with this.