Hi Bryan, Thanks for the report. With this information in hand, what follow up is planned?
Pine On May 4, 2016 19:01, "Bryan Davis" <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey > > Apologies for that abrupt initial message, that was a great example of > hitting the wrong key in a mail client. :) > > Between 2015-09-25 and 2015-10-08, the Wikimedia Foundation ran a > direct response user survey of registered Tool Labs users. 106 users > responded to the survey. > > Based on responses to demographic questions, the average[1] respondent: > * Has used Tool Labs for 1-3 years > * Developed & maintains 1-3 tools > * Spends an hour or less a week using Tool Labs > * Programs using PHP and/or Python > * Does the majority of their work locally > * Uses source control > * Was not a developer or maintainer on Toolserver > > [1]: "Average" here means a range of responses covering 50% or more of > responses to the question. This summarization is coarse, but useful as > a broad generalization. Detailed demographic response data will be > made available on wiki. > > Qualitative questions: > 64% agree that services have high reliability (up time). > 69% agree that it is easy to write code and have it running on Tool Labs. > 67% agree that they feel they are supported by the Tool Labs team when > they contact them via labs-l mailing list, #wikimedia-labs IRC > channel, or phabricator. > 53% agree that they receive useful information via labs-announce / > labs-l mailing lists. > 52% disagree that documentation is easy-to-find. > 71% find the support they receive when using Tool Labs as good or > better than the support they received when using Toolserver. > 50% disagree that Tool Labs documentation is comprehensive. > 50% agree that Tool Labs documentation is clear. > > Service usage: > 45% use LabsDB often. > 60% use webservices often. > 54% use cronjobs often. > 75% never use redis. > 41% never use continuous jobs . > > The survey included several free form response sections. Survey > participants were told that we would only publicly share their > responses or survey results in aggregate or anonymized form. The > freeform responses include comments broadly falling into these > categories: > > Documentation (33 comments) > Stability and performance (18 comments) > Version control and Deployment (14 comments) > Logs, Metrics, and Monitoring (12 comments) > Package management (10 comments) > SGE (8 comments) > Database (7 comments) > Account/Tool creation (5 comments) > SSH (5 comments) > Other (11 comments) > > Additonal details are available on meta [2]. > > [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > lab...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l