[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

Le 14/09/11 19:57, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :

Hi Charles,

> In fact, putting the survey online should not be impossible... 
> But let's agree on the questions first.

Hehe, always the difficult part...


> 1) Users typology
> - platform
> - modules that are the most used (list all LibreOffice modules and
>   allow the responding person to select each of them from 1 to 5)

OK so far, that would be similar to the Sun survey.


> 2) About Base:
> - use case typology (more input needed here, I won't be exhaustive)
> - do you use Base as a font-end to external DBs or do you rely on
>   HSQLDB ? Or both?

- hmm, we may need to cater for the non-technical user here : "frontend"
and "external DB" could be confusing. Something like :

If using Base, do you use :
1) builtin (native) HSQLDB ;
2) another database engine (e.g. mysql, postgresql, H2, firebird, DB2, etc)
3) if the answer to (2) was "Yes", which kind of database engine ?
4) if the answer to (2) was "Yes" which kind of connector (JDBC, ODBC,
MySQL C Connector extension, postgresql connector extension, some other
driver etc) ?


If using Base, do you :
1) need it for personal/domestic use only
2) need it for small scale professional use
3) need it for large scale, multi-user, business or organisation use


> - how would you rate Base?  (choice between "it's bad, it's very buggy,
>   it's okay but it could be much better,  I really like it").

Scale of 1 to 5 (as in 1 for total agreement through indifferent (3) to
5 total disagreement with the statement) ?


> - what is the most blocking bug in Base according to you (free answer +
>   possible pointing to a reported issue

This would be a nightmare question in IMHO, probably attracting far too
many diverse responses (and possibly even several in the same field).
I'm not really sure what could be suggested instead, as anything like
this will be bound to attract criticism for being too "selective",
"focussed" or "oriented".

Perhaps it could be worded thus :
"What single feature or functionality would you most like to see fixed
rapidly ?" (like I said, I'm not too happy with this kind of reasoning,
especially where there are several issues that vie for popularity in my
own mind ;-))


> 3) Base in the future
> - do you plan to use Base more or less in the future?

IMO a leading question, but hey I'm not a psychologist :-)

> - do you plan to use Base as a front end to external DB or do you plan
>   to use it as a front end to the embedded HSQLDB?
> - do you think LibreOffice should get rid of Base?
> - If LibreOffice were to get rid of Base, what would you be using as a
>   front end to databases? (freeform answer).


Can't think of anything else offhand, but no doubt my brain will wake up
again later :-)) BTW, I do not consider myself to be an expert in
anything anyway related to survey materials, as I tend to be overly
critical of them anyway !!!



Alex


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