Hi Joseph, Quoting Joseph R. Justice (2013-07-19 02:09:59) [snip] > Now, the survey as I've seen it (both the original draft and draft 2 following > Gregor Herrmann's comments) appears to be focused primarily if not exclusively > on people doing packaging work. And, as I've already noted, it might be too > big a goal to try to address non-packaging work, at least at this moment and/or > in this survey. (And also you probably need to figure out what sorts of > non-packaging contributions typically occur; different types of contribution > might call for different surveys and/or at least different questions.) It > might spread the focus of the survey too thinly such that it is less helpful > than it could potentially be. While I fully agree that it would be nice to acknowledge more the non-packaging work done for Debian, there is a simple reason as to why this survey is mainly about the packaging work: the data used to get the names of the survey targets is the history of package uploads to Debian. The fact is, I don't think we have much to track non-packaging contributions and contributors in the first place. Before considering adressing them the same kind of survey, we would probably need a way to identify them. Cheers, Simon
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