Paul Ivanov, on 2012-03-28 17:22, wrote: > Hey everyone, > > with 1.1.1 just around the corner, I thought it'd be nice to put > together an MPL user survey, similar to what Thomas Kluyver > organized for IPython last year [1]. > > Here's what I've got so far [2], and here's the response one gets > upon filling out the form: > > ----- > Thanks for your feedback. > > As promised, here are the details of how to do various things: > > the official documentation is at: > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ > > to run the test suite: > python -c "import matplotlib; matplotlib.test()" > > file bug reports and submit pull requests here: > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib > > to post to the matplotlib-users list, subscribe here: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ----- > > with an additional link at the bottom to look at the summary of previous > respondents, which looks like [3]. > > How does this look to everyone? Any changes before I distribute > this more widely? (Preferably not just via list, but also add a > link to it on the main page, which is what IPython folks also did > for a while). > > 1. http://ipython.org/usersurvey2011.html > 2. > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ > 3. > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ
Me again, just decided to inline the survey text, so that suggestions can be more readily made here, without having to following links, etc. matplotlib user survey 2012 Stand up and be counted, matplotlib developers want to hear from you! All questions are optional, we look forward to your feedback. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What country are you from? [ ] How long have you been using matplotlib? • (*) about a month • ( ) < 6 months • ( ) about a year • ( ) 2 to 4 years • ( ) more than 4 years What operating system do you run matplotlib on? (check all that apply) • [ ] *BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc) • [ ] GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, etc) • [ ] Mac OS X • [ ] Windows • [ ] Other: [ ] What version of python do you use matplotlib on? (check all that apply) • [ ] 2.4 • [ ] 2.5 • [ ] 2.6 • [ ] 2.7 • [ ] 3.0 • [ ] 3.1 • [ ] 3.2 You use matplotlib for: (check all that apply) • [ ] Academic development (research, publication graphics, etc.) • [ ] Commercial development • [ ] Personal hobby / recreationally You *primarily* use matplotlib for: (check all that apply) • ( ) Academic development (research, publication graphics, etc.) • ( ) Commercial development • ( ) Personal hobby / recreationally How do you use matplotlib? [ ] [ ] [ ] How frequently do you *RUN* code which uses matplotlib? • ( ) daily • ( ) a few times per week • ( ) a few times per month • ( ) less frequently How frequently do you *WRITE* code which uses matplotlib? • ( ) daily • ( ) a few times per week • ( ) a few times per month • ( ) less frequently For the matplotlib project, do you know how to ... (check all that apply, you'll get all the answers after you hit the submit button) • [ ] locate and navigate the official documentation • [ ] run the test suite • [ ] file bug reports on GitHub • [ ] post to the matplotlib-users list • [ ] submit patches / pull requests In the past year, have you... (check all that apply) • [ ] accessed the official documentation • [ ] run the test suite • [ ] filed a bug report on GitHub • [ ] posted to the matplotlib-users list • [ ] submitted a patch / pull request How do you get matplotlib on your machine? (check all that apply) • [ ] compile and install directly from source (zip / tarball / git checkout) • [ ] use official packages provided by matplotlib team • [ ] use packages provided by my operating system (.deb, .rpm, ports, etc) • [ ] Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) http://enthought.com/products/epd.php • [ ] Python(X,Y) http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/ • [ ] Sage http://sagemath.org/ • [ ] Other: [ ] What other plotting libraries do you use and why? [ ] [ ] [ ] How would you like matplotlib to improve in the future? [ ] [ ] [ ] best, -- Paul Ivanov http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
