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

Hello Alexander,

Le Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:50:33 +0200,
Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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) ?

nice, that's what I meant, thank you. 

> 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

I would insert the fourth (non-exclusive question): do you use it as a
replacement for MS Access? 

> > - 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) ?

yes, for instance. 

> > - 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 ;-))

The reason I deliberately inserted this question (I agree with your
rephrasing) is that I am interested to see whether we actually may find
one or several patterns in the answers. There are chances we'll get
noise, but it'd be telling to pick some trend. 

> > 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 !!!

If anything, it's the only rational way we have, because we could all be
writing our wishes or require a new mailing list, yet I think we would
not be listening to ou users. So let's see whether we can get something
going!

Best,

Charles. 

> Alex



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Charles-H. Schulz
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The Document Foundation.

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