Re: Research survey: Impact of Microsoft Acquisition of GitHub
Hello Ian and others,
First, on behalf of the professors, we apologize for not replying earlier, as any response from developers is important.
I had been on vacation and also wanted to carefully respond to you as Debian developers, as I believe our work is
to help FLOSS projects like yourselves.
My name is Raula, and I am one of the supervisors for our Intern (Asavaseri),
one of the professors responsible for her internship project. The
project was part of a short two-month Japan-Thai initiative for final year undergraduates
to understand aspects of graduate work in Software Engineering.
Although in a short period, we tried as much to develop a systematic method and ask
unbiased questions on this sensitive topic, yet am aware that we may have some short-fallings
since we are coming from an academic perspective and direct access to developers.
As researchers, we tried forums that were less intrusive to developers work and are prone to missing key developers.
In regards to the survey platform, we agree with statements that it is a flaw, we have a more anonymous version in SurveyMonkey,
but by then it was too late to gather more feedback. However, we have had generally positive feedback from
other distros, yet.
The key intention of the web results was a quick view and not in anyway depict a full analysis with implications and thought out
discussions are needed. We do plan to expand the study and submit all our results to reputable
software engineering peer-reviewed locations, however, if developers do not agree with this result, we are open to collaboration
and direct feedback from developers like yourselves.
Overall our intention is to assist with developers and we appreciate your feedback, which will help us to get a clearer picture of reality.
Best Regards,
Raula
On 08/21/18 12:10 AM, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Ian Jackson dijo [Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 04:33:46PM +0100]:
> > Asavaseri Natnaree writes ("Re: Research survey: Impact of Microsoft
> > Acquisition of GitHub"): > I am happy to announce that we are ready
> > to release preliminary results of the "Developer Perception to
> > Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub" survey. These results can be
> > accessed at "
> > https://naist-se.github.io/study-of-microsofts-github-acquisition/";. Again
> > thank you for your participation and please feel free to share or
> > discuss these results.
> >
> > I'm sorry to say that I think this is a poor piece of work.
> > (...)
>
> Hello Ian,
>
> I understand your frustration with the work shared with the author and
> other linked people. However, this is not the way to answer to
> somebody who is attempting to do a contribution to understand the
> social weather after an important change.
>
> The first part of your mail is... Maybe somewhat harsh (I would invite
> you to review the "ignoring negativity" panels at this last DebConf;
> that's not the communication pattern our project needs!), but this
> last paragraph is frankly... Frightening.
>
> > To debian-devel: Does someone here speak enough Japanese to find the
> > contact email address for someone at NAIST who will take reports of
> > potential problems with research ethics ?
>
> So, maybe Asavaseri is a student struggling with methodology? Maybe a
> researcher from a different field, who can use some correction in his
> ways for this subject? For that, we would all thank you for most of
> your mail.
>
> But with this paragraph, your mail turned into a _threat_. That is not
> something that should go down easily. I ask you not to pursue this
> path.
--
Raula Gaikovina Kula, PhD.
Assistant Professor,
NAIST,
Graduate School of Science & Technology,
Division of Information Science,
Software Engineering Lab.
https://raux.github.io/
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