On 17050 March 1977, Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
That "likely" is better worded as "for a great number of people
anonymity will not exist for anyone seeing the real answers".
Also, that aggregate form would need to somehow mangle the following 3
questions up pretty good, I think.
A03 formal status
A04 which 3 teams most involved
A05/A05a which other foss projects involved in
Those are enough to ditch about any anonymity I think, combine it
with B01c to make it easy enough for even an AI to find out who the
submitter is. I might be an extreme example, but for me it would be
enough to truthfully answer A04 (archive, new-maintainer, salsa) and
confirm it with A05a putting OFTC..."
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Are you an AI, or used one to write this? :)
Me mentioning AI was just a sidekick on how bad AI is, but the general
point is the *ease* of identifying people answering the question set and
that pretending it will be anonymous is a nice wish only.
B01c only loses when someone works for a real big company.
The reason we kept this question from the 2016 Survey is to
investigate how firms’ engagement in Debian has changed over time, but
all the questions in the survey are voluntary, if you feel
uncomfortable answering any question feel free to skip it.
We could add a sentence in this question like “If you feel
uncomfortable to answer it, feel free to skip it and move on to the
next one”. Would that help?
I think the whole questions I mentioned should have something above that
the combination of the answers may make it really easy to identify the
person answering.
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bye, Joerg