Hello Alexander, Le Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:50:33 +0200, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Le 14/09/11 19:57, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Hi Charles, > > > In fact, putting the survey online should not be impossible... > > But let's agree on the questions first. > > Hehe, always the difficult part... > > > > > > 1) Users typology > > - platform > > - modules that are the most used (list all LibreOffice modules and > > allow the responding person to select each of them from 1 to 5) > > OK so far, that would be similar to the Sun survey. > > > > > > 2) About Base: > > - use case typology (more input needed here, I won't be exhaustive) > > - do you use Base as a font-end to external DBs or do you rely on > > HSQLDB ? Or both? > > - hmm, we may need to cater for the non-technical user here : > "frontend" and "external DB" could be confusing. Something like : > > If using Base, do you use : > 1) builtin (native) HSQLDB ; > 2) another database engine (e.g. mysql, postgresql, H2, firebird, > DB2, etc) 3) if the answer to (2) was "Yes", which kind of database > engine ? 4) if the answer to (2) was "Yes" which kind of connector > (JDBC, ODBC, MySQL C Connector extension, postgresql connector > extension, some other driver etc) ? nice, that's what I meant, thank you. > > > If using Base, do you : > 1) need it for personal/domestic use only > 2) need it for small scale professional use > 3) need it for large scale, multi-user, business or organisation use I would insert the fourth (non-exclusive question): do you use it as a replacement for MS Access? > > > > - how would you rate Base? (choice between "it's bad, it's very > > buggy, it's okay but it could be much better, I really like it"). > > Scale of 1 to 5 (as in 1 for total agreement through indifferent (3) > to 5 total disagreement with the statement) ? yes, for instance. > > > > - what is the most blocking bug in Base according to you (free > > answer + possible pointing to a reported issue > > This would be a nightmare question in IMHO, probably attracting far > too many diverse responses (and possibly even several in the same > field). I'm not really sure what could be suggested instead, as > anything like this will be bound to attract criticism for being too > "selective", "focussed" or "oriented". > > Perhaps it could be worded thus : > "What single feature or functionality would you most like to see fixed > rapidly ?" (like I said, I'm not too happy with this kind of > reasoning, especially where there are several issues that vie for > popularity in my own mind ;-)) The reason I deliberately inserted this question (I agree with your rephrasing) is that I am interested to see whether we actually may find one or several patterns in the answers. There are chances we'll get noise, but it'd be telling to pick some trend. > > > > > > 3) Base in the future > > - do you plan to use Base more or less in the future? > > IMO a leading question, but hey I'm not a psychologist :-) > > > - do you plan to use Base as a front end to external DB or do you > > plan to use it as a front end to the embedded HSQLDB? > > - do you think LibreOffice should get rid of Base? > > - If LibreOffice were to get rid of Base, what would you be using > > as a front end to databases? (freeform answer). > > > Can't think of anything else offhand, but no doubt my brain will wake > up again later :-)) BTW, I do not consider myself to be an expert in > anything anyway related to survey materials, as I tend to be overly > critical of them anyway !!! If anything, it's the only rational way we have, because we could all be writing our wishes or require a new mailing list, yet I think we would not be listening to ou users. So let's see whether we can get something going! Best, Charles. > > > > Alex > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
