Dear Andy,
First of all, I would prefer to discuss these matters individually not on the list. However, because you are sending e-mails to the list I need to write it to the list too. I am also in this list and I don't see the number of surveys blooming. This is totally an incorrect statement. The e-mails I sent is related to the questions at the very heart of development. So, if they are unsolicited, unrequired, one can easily argue that non of the e-mails is required. Regarding to the second part of e-mail, I think everybody in this list is clever enough to see you are just trying to place some definitions or labels. I am 30 years old I think I have been in many projects, which allow me to talk about what I know precisely. There are people doing their Ph.D. in their 40s and 50s. So, would you call them kids too? You only judge or identify yourself with what you say. You can not identify others. I think, any person who gained true mastery in a field would not feel this need to do it anyways. Let people decide. I have been received over 110 answers. Let me ask you this. If there are people in this project interested in what I am writing, how can you feel comfortable trying to put down this communication. Do you think your friends do not have the ability to distinguish what is useful, what is relevant, what is not? As I conclude, I should say that I am truly inspired with what I am doing and would like to remind this "I might disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire To everybody, if the things I write in my e-mails make sense, please visit: http://www.seas.smu.edu/~gkoru/surveys/dhsurvey.html and fill out my survey, if you haven't done yet. Regards A. Gunes Koru http://www.seas.smu.edu/~gkoru =========================================================== >I answered the first two or three of these that was sent to me (student >studies)...� But they seem to be blooming rapidly.� One could >hypothesize through the use of some kind of mathematical model that >if one continues to participate they will increase exponentially and >eventually one will answer surveys with all of the time they would spend >actually participating in open source software projects. > >We should round these kids up and get them to maybe create a student >survey information site.� They could do it as their own opensource >project and then collect the data they need from themselves ;-) > >-Andy ========================================================= On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:38, Gunes Koru wrote: > > Hello Jakarta contributors, > > I am conducting a survey about the way bugs are handled in open source > software projects. The survey includes questions that can be answered by > developers,testers, bug fixers, project managers, and owners of defect > databases. It is only and only for research purposes and it is very easy > to fill out. It consists of three short sections which can be completed at > once or in different sessions. Please fill it out if you haven't done yet. > You will find the questions interesting since there is a reason behind > each one one of them. They will make you think about how things work (or > could work)in your project. The survey can be found in the address: > > http://www.seas.smu.edu/~gkoru/surveys/dhsurvey.html > > The data in the bug databases can be used to identify the high risk areas > in the software development. One of the ways of doing it is constructing > tree-based models, which could be very useful in open source projects. If > you would like to read about it, I prepared a web page for you: > > http://www.seas.smu.edu/~gkoru/surveys/tbdm1.html > > Please accept my apologies if you receive duplicates of this e-mail. This > is a survey, which will give useful results for all of us. I will try to > prepare and make some preliminary results on-line within the next two > weeks. Since this is a survey, covering many important open source > projects, it will be interesting for everybody to see what kind of quality > assurance work is going on in the other projects. As always, we are very > dedicated to this research. Please contact me for any question you might > have. > > Thank you, > > A. Gunes Koru > http://www.engr.smu.edu/~gkoru > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail:�� <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java��������������������������� http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure ������������������� a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
