Stu wrote in post #989698:
well this is a forum so why not have the questions entered here since
some of the answers may not be simple yes/no answers. Also since it's
a public forum the answers might help others who have the same type of
questions or marketing concerns. btw nice trek font.
Hey Stu,
I restricted the questions to simple yes/no or multiple choice because
it's much easier to visualise the responses. Also, if I had opened up
the questions to allow people to enter free text then I would have been
collecting information that isn't relevant to this specific project.
For instance, I am only interested if rubygems.org is your primary
source of gems. If I had allowed people to enter their own responses
they would have inevitably mentioned other gem hosts which I would have
only had to disregard.
Also, I think it's much easier to persuade people to fill out a survey
if it's quick and requires minimal input; hence the limited number of
questions and answer choices.
I didn't list the questions on the forum primarily because it would be
much harder to collect the responses.
The responses so far have thrown up some interesting facts about Ruby
developers behaviour & preferences so once the survey is complete (I'm
aiming for around 250 responses and I'm about 60% the way there) then I
probably will publish the results somewhere in the hope others may find
them useful =)
-Mic