Last year[1] the following issues were raised in this thread, along with my perception of how the current survey stacks up with that past feedback.[2]
The current survey seems to be the same.
It does seem that some categories of tool were broken out into separate questions this time, generally as sub-questions if you answered yes to “do you do Task X”.
I didn’t see any such outreach happening on this forum. (The User Success WG was also mentioned but I don’t know what if anything happened on that front.)
I didn’t see any increase in such questions this year.
This question still is there, still is mandatory, and still has no clear answer for people whose Python work is not clearly classifiable in terms of “professional” status. As other comments on this thread have indicated, the same seems to be true of many other questions in the survey. Sometimes there is an “other” option but almost all the questions are mandatory for no clear reason.
As mentioned, virtually all the questions are mandatory.
I didn’t see that happen on the other thread or elsewhere on this forum.
'll echo a comment from last year:
The fact that so many of the issues discussed last year seem to have been duplicated this year, with no apparent outreach taking place in this forum, only exacerbates this problem.
@riecatnor, can you clarify what the benefit of this survey is supposed to be to the PSF and/or the larger Python community? I hate to say it but at this point I don’t really see it. There is a great opportunity here to make a survey that actually gathers input on questions that people spend a lot of time discussing, and this survey misses pretty much of all of that in favor of popularity-contest questions that smack of marketing research for JetBrains. Last year you said:
Again, I hate to say this, but at this point I feel like it might actually be better to just tell them they can do it on their own if they want to, because, at least from my perspective, attaching the PSF’s imprimatur to this suggests a level of involvement in and relevance to the Python community that isn’t borne out by what the survey actually is.
or rather in 2024 — I gather there was no 2025 survey because of the change in launch date? ↩︎
I’m quoting the people who made comments in the other thread but obviously my perception of the current study in relation to those comments is my own and the people I’m quoting might not agree with me; just want to make that clear
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