[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:12:14 -0500
Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

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.