For your specific survey please look at the larger issue of communication, very important in open source software development.
You will find that the GeoTools project uses a proposal process to organize large scale refactorings and other api changes, a recent example is changing the packaging of the library for Java 11 compatibility <http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com/2019/01/geotools-java-11-code-sprint-results.html> . -- Jody Garnett On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 09:26, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate you signing up to our email list to contact us directly, we > do get a number of these requests a year ... but even when we > participate we do not learn if our participation was useful. > Can I ask that you share your results when your study is complete. > > The transparent nature of open source makes it a fascinating subject for > research. It is a shame so many of these surveys look at design / qa / > development tools .. and do not explore the communication / funding / > collaboration aspects that have a larger impact on sustainability and open > source longevity. > -- > Jody Garnett > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 08:12, Jevgenija Pantiuchina < > jevgenija.pantiuch...@usi.ch> wrote: > >> Dear GeoTools developers, >> >> As part of a research team from Università della Svizzera italiana >> (Switzerland) and University of Sannio (Italy), we have analyzed >> refactoring pull requests in https://github.com/geotools/geotools repository >> and are looking for developers for a short 5-10 min survey ( >> https://usi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cO6Ayah0D6q4eSF). Would you >> please spare your time by answering some questions about >> refactoring-related contributions? We would greatly appreciate your input — >> it would help us understand how developers can improve the quality of >> refactoring contributions, and benefit the development process. The >> responses will be anonymized and handled confidentially! Thank you a lot! >> >> If you consider this message to be spam, I'm very sorry! There will be no >> follow-up to bother you. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GeoTools-Devel mailing list >> GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel >> >
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