Hello, On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > To this end we are currently preparing a survey. We expect to use > surveys.debian.net (Limesurvey) to generate private links that can be sent > to each Debian developer. (This is so that only Debian developers can fill > out the survey.) Once the survey has concluded, collated statistics will be > shared publicly with the Debian community; individual responses will > naturally be kept private.
Nobody reacted to this part but we got some feedback that some Debian developers will be surprised to receive a survey directly in their inbox instead of through some mailing lists, so after discussion with the Debian project leader, we decided to change our approach to switch to something opt-in. We will share a public link to the survey on debian-devel-announce and any participant will have to enter their debian.org email to receive the private link to fill the survey. We will send two reminders on debian-devel-announce with at least one week between each reminder. Before analysing the result, we will discard any answer coming from a non-debian.org email (or from an email that we can't map to a DD through analysis of the Debian keyring). We will also exclude answers from non-DD that do have a debian.org email (although their inclusion would likely have no significant impact from a statistical point of view). We also plan to add a question “Do you want to be included by default in future Debian-related surveys?" to start building a GDPR-compliant database of Debian developers that accept to be contacted directly to answers surveys in support of work made by other Debian developers. If you see any issue with this approach, please let us know. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog