survey

Go Developer Survey Configuration

This Go module serves the configuration file for the Go Developer Survey shown in the VS Code Go extension.

Purpose

This module exists solely to host the config.json file. By hosting it as a Go module, it can be fetched via module proxy, providing a reliable and secure way for the VS Code Go extension to get the latest survey configuration.

This approach is inspired by the Go team's telemetry configuration module.

config.json

The config.json file defines the parameters for the Go Developer Survey. It has the following structure:

{
  "StartDate": "2023-09-01T00:00:00Z",
  "EndDate": "2023-10-01T00:00:00Z",
  "URL": "https://google.com/survey/url"
}

• StartDate: The ISO 8601 timestamp for when the survey promotion should start.
• EndDate: The ISO 8601 timestamp for when the survey promotion should end.
• URL: The URL to the survey.

Usage

This module is not intended to be used as a library. It is fetched by the VS Code Go extension.

Tagging

The versioning scheme follows semantic versioning, with each change to the configuration being a minor version increment.

As this module is in the survey/ subdirectory of its repository, the git tag must be prefixed with survey/. This is a requirement for Go modules located in subdirectories. For more details, see the Go Modules documentation.

For example, if the most recent tag is survey/v0.1.0, the new tag should be survey/v0.2.0.

Release Process

When changes are made to config.json, a new version of this module must be released. This is done by creating a new git tag that follows the convention described above.