On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:12:14 -0500 Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@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. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
