Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Philip K.]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> [2020-10-10 11:35]:
>> * 2020-10-09 19:12:23-04, Adrien Brochard wrote:
>> 
>> > Please find the list of questions I have gathered at the end of this
>> > email.
>> 
>> Great! I would like to see this survey conducted. It would be
>> interesting to see what people use Emacs for and some distribution of
>> answers. It's not easy to find good sample of users but if the survey is
>> published in some main communication platforms or communities it will be
>> good enough, I think.
>
> If survey is published, for example on Reddit, such survey is narrow
> and specific to Reddit users, and would represent only that
> communication channel.
>
> My proposal on how to publish a survey is to include that in the Help
> menu, and let people do it straight from Emacs. That is similar to bug
> reporting, but it is not a bug, it is feature request.

But if you have to have mail configured, you're also only going to have
a specific subset of all users.

I think the idea of having a survey that could be filled out from Emacs
is interesting (although we would only get to hear from current users,
not previous users). But it would have to work regardless of what the
user has configured or not. From what I see, that would either mean a
web form that can be filled out using EWW or a package that could be
downloaded from ELPA.

-- 
        Philip K.