Can you clarify in what way you think (or have heard) it is useful? In last year’s thread you said:
I want to push back a bit on that framing. Personally, I do not see those four articles as evidence that the survey is useful in any way. All of them seem to consist entirely of restatements of some subset of the results in a prose format. I searched the web for analyses of the survey data and found basically more of the same. The mere fact that people tell other people that the survey was done and got certain numbers doesn’t tell us much about whether any of it was meaningful.
The main issue I see is that more or less this same question was asked last year, and yet this year’s survey appears to have incorporated very little of that feedback, nor was there (to my knowledge) any public process on this forum[1]. In addition, last year you said:
This phrasing suggests that the survey is basically designed in private by JetBrains and the PSF merely “reviews” and “suggests” changes. Is that correct? Can you say explicitly what the survey design process is?
My personal view is that there is not much point in the PSF attaching its name to such a survey. What would be useful is a flip of that, in which some group of community members[2] designs the survey with public input. In other words it sounds like right now this is fundamentally a JetBrains survey to which the PSF’s name is attached; I don’t see much use to it unless it is going to be fundamentally a PSF survey that JetBrains merely administers.