On 17050 March 1977, Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
That "likely" is better worded as "for a great number of people anonymity will not exist for anyone seeing the real answers". Also, that aggregate form would need to somehow mangle the following 3 questions up pretty good, I think.
A03 formal status A04 which 3 teams most involved A05/A05a which other foss projects involved in
Those are enough to ditch about any anonymity I think, combine it with B01c to make it easy enough for even an AI to find out who the submitter is. I might be an extreme example, but for me it would be enough to truthfully answer A04 (archive, new-maintainer, salsa) and confirm it with A05a putting OFTC..."
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Are you an AI, or used one to write this? :) Me mentioning AI was just a sidekick on how bad AI is, but the general point is the *ease* of identifying people answering the question set and that pretending it will be anonymous is a nice wish only.
The reason we kept this question from the 2016 Survey is to investigate how firms’ engagement in Debian has changed over time, but all the questions in the survey are voluntary, if you feel uncomfortable answering any question feel free to skip it. We could add a sentence in this question like “If you feel uncomfortable to answer it, feel free to skip it and move on to the next one”. Would that help?B01c only loses when someone works for a real big company.
I think the whole questions I mentioned should have something above that the combination of the answers may make it really easy to identify the person answering. -- bye, Joerg