May 2016 - Committers Survey

Introduction

This survey was created to get feedback from all current Apache OFBiz Committers, including non active and emeritus (a total of 38).

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• It was conducted over the period 19th - 25th May 2016. Details of the survey was posted on the mailing lists.
• A total of ?? responses were recorded and the details are recorded below.

Survey Questions

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• The objective of this question was to find out which areas were worked on
• It could also be used to find out which were the most popular areas the community wanted to work on
• Only one response was allowed

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• The majority of respondents worked on fixing bugs. This is understandable as removing as many bugs from the system is a project priority
• People also pent time on improvements, new features or reviewing and testing patches
• It is surprising however that no work was done on documentation updates although this has been continually highlighted as an area where the project needs to focus and spend time on. Perhaps some guidance or collaborative work would work better for this area.

Question 5:  How much time did you spend working on OFBiz Community Day activities?

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• The objective of this question was to find out how much time was spent working on tasks during the Community Day
• Only one response was allowed

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• The majority of people (56%) spent 5 or more hours working on Community Day tasks.
  
  

Question 6:  Evaluate the following statements

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• The objective of this question was to find out whether the communications or preparations for the Community Day were adequate and whether more planning or organisation was required
• It was also a question that asked if the community wanted more structure for the community day and more collaboration
• One reponse was allowed for each statement

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• The majority of respondents thought that the Community Day details were well communicated. Details were published on theproject  mailing lists, Linked In Groups and Twitter.
• There was a mixed response around planning and organisation
  • 69% agreed that we need to have more planning and co-ordination
  • 62% agreed that community members should plan and manage their own work (yet 81% agreed that we to organise collaborative work)

• This is an unusual result because it seems to say that we want both a collaborativly planned and organised day yet at the same time be able to work independently (i.e not collaboratively)

Question 7:  Would you participate in future OFBiz Community Days?

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Question 8:  How frequently would you like OFBiz Community Days to be held?

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Question 9: Overall, how would you rate the OFBiz Community Day?

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Final Comments

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey that enabled me to provide these results and details. I hope that these are useful to the community now and into the future as we continue to look and survey our community base.

Please feel to leave any comments or observations.