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[phoenix-epic-dev] Survey Results
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This is basically
the final results of the EPIC survey as there are only a few hours
left.
I would declare 689
responses a success, thanks to everyone who worked hard on the questions -- the
results are fantastic. The composition of the people who did the survey
looks pretty good to me, I think we hit the right audience.
There were 198
responses to the open ended "what would you like added to EPIC" question.
About 60 were nonsensical comments, but some people made multiple
suggestions on different topics, so in the end there were about ~160
quality suggestions. These were nuggets that I think are the key findings
and main value of the survey. I took a stab at categorizing the comments,
grouping them and massing the messages. This is very much my own way of
organizing and thinking about the comments and there was definitely some
subjective interpretation involved. Feel free to massage the data as you
wish, you can see what I did in the XLS attached.
So, here are what I
noted:
- There was an
overwhelming (~30% of the 158) request to offer better categorization, tagging
and filtering of the plugins. Many people (8) asked to be able to
categorize by license, and many (6) wanted to be able to categorize by
commercial or not.
- About 18%
said they wanted a better layout and webdesign. People used words like
"stale", "dead", "out of date", "not lifeful". In other words, a slicker
feel and a stronger feeling the site is active.
- About 16% Also
said they wanted a lot more info and details on the plugin pages.
Tutorials was mentioned 7 times. Screenshots 4, podcasts 4. About
five people said they wanted to see more reviews and testimonials of the
projects. Per-plugin WIKI pages was also suggested multiple times.
Basically, people want the plugin pages to be a live, fresh looking area with
lots of links and supporting info.
- About 13%
said they wanted more search options - this actually fits in somewhat with the
tagging and categorization (to the point I thought of collapsing them
together). Basically, people want to have lots more categorization types
and then want to be able to search and filter easily by them. People also
complained search was hard to find and not prominent enough.
- I was
surprised by the prevalence and consistency of this request - about 8% said they
wanted to see an EPIC update site that integrated with the update manager.
People want to be able to be able to automatically update and link all their
EPIC plugins from a single update site.
- The rest of
the results:
- 6
people suggested some sort of RSS feed for plugin of the day and/or plugin
updates
- 4
people suggested they wanted measures to ensure rankings were not abused and
were done openly
- 4
people asked for more plugins
-
2 wanted a Rich Client EPIC viewer :)
- 2
wanted EPIC to host projects a-la-sourceforge
One off
suggestions:
-
Only plugins, everything else on eclipse.org
- Better promotion
of EPIC on eclipse.org
- Plugin bundles
- Work
with other portals on std categorizations
- Events
Calendar
So, when I correlate
this to our current issues:
- It does not
appear many people are worried about the rankings as only 4 made requests
related to making them "not be abused". No indications of any
negativity.
- We hit the
nail on the head of Improving usability as our #1 theme, the community is
backing that up significantly, and we now have lots of specific suggestions on
how to accomplish this.
Cheers,
- Don
--
Director of Ecosystem
Development
Office: (613) 224-9461
x231
Cell: (613) 292-5160
Fax: (613) 224-5172
Attachment:
689 Full Results.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Attachment:
689 OE Results.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Attachment:
689 Sites.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Attachment:
Open Ended Refined.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet
