User feedback and participation is very important for developing good software that addresses real issues.
We have not been very successful in obtaining feedback regularly. Anonymous feedback could help overcome the issue that people might like to give feedback and yet don't want to interact with the mailing list. This is a very good start. We can try it and see how it works. I would also like to add questions about documentation, website and samples. This is the kind of feedback that I've been trying to obtain to improve information sharing. We could also ask for input on C++. It is not clear how much C++ is used in real production environment and if both C++ and Java are used in the in same environment. We have seen a few questions around this area. On 7/15/08, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Related to the thread on the user list asking for feedback on the Tuscany > distributions i was wondering if there were better ways to get user feedback > and if there were ways for users to do it anonymously. One approach i could > be using one of the online survey tools available on the net, googling > around most of those tools require paying to open an account which is no > good for us, the best one i've found so far is > http://www.surveymonkey.comwhich lets you have free surveys limited to 10 > questions and up to 100 > participants. To show what it looks like I had a quick go at creating a > survey: > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Tan_2fLai6NIjLpuh2ZlA1qg_3d_3d > > Is there any merit in doing this? If people think it is worthwhile we could > work out some better questions and then point to the survey in the 1.3 > release announcement and and blogs etc which would get a bit more exposure > than the email on the user list. > > WDYT? > > ...ant > > >
