Hi Ant, Thank you for taking the first step to put the draft survey together. Let's first agree on the goal of the survey.
IMHO the survey would give Tuscany developers the cues for enhancing Tuscany to further help businesses that adapt SCA for developing their SOA-based solutions. Assuming that this is the baseline, some questions that can be asked in the survey could be as follows ( I borrowed questions from the draft survey that Ant had published, but thought it is easier to form the questions in this email thread rather than using the survey tool). Understand baseline 1. In what stage of development are you in? a) prototype b) in development c) in production 2. What release of Apache Tuscany do you use? - List releases to choose from (Click option) 3. What runtime platform do you use? a) Tomcat b) Geronimo c) JBoss d) Vendor specific e) Standalone Understand what is needed 4. Which technologies do you use in your solution? -List to choose from a) JEE b) Spring c) BPEL d) J2SE e) Scripting languages f) OSGI e) ESB, C++, other - If you mentioned other, please indicate what 5. Which SCA binding and implementation types do you use? - List Bindings and implementation to choose from in the survey - What additional bindings or implementation types would you like to see? 6. How would you rate ease of installation and use? a) very good b) good c) fair d) poor - What suggestion do you have for improving this? 7. If you have not adopted Tuscany yet, what will help you make that decision? On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:18 AM, 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 > >
