State of D 2018 Survey

[Seb]

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 19:31:27 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
> If that were to be done again here are a few points that I'd 
> improve:
>
> - there are many occurences of open questions where I entered a 
> text only to find that the next fixed-choice question was about 
> what I had written. I therefore feel like open questions should 
> be asked as late as possible.

Ok. Understood. I tried to avoid this, but I obviously 
(partially) failed.

> - some questions introduce clear bias as they don't have a 
> clear default exit path.
>
> For example for "How would you rate the importance of having 
> documentation and error messages translated into your native 
> language?" I feel like english speakers should have a way to 
> exit cleanly as clearly they are both more numerous than the 
> counter part (I think) and less likely to feel a need for 
> supporting other languages.
> ...

Good point! There are a few questions that already have logic 
jumps (e.g. you get only asked about your experience with the 
DTour if you actually said that you used it), but I obviously 
missed that one. It's too late for that one now, but I will 
definitely keep this in mind for 2019.

(also TypeForms so called "smart" jumps are severely limited, but 
you got to use what you have.)

> - I don't know if typeform allows it but sometimes having a 
> link to the feature discussion or library reference would have 
> been great. I didn't had to search many of them to actually 
> know what the survey was talking about (which doesn't always 
> indicate that I'm not concerned about the consequences of the 
> change).

TypeForm only allows a general description for questions which 
very limited Markdown (not even link support, only raw links).
Anyhow, the feedback: "better descriptions" for questions is 
noted. Thanks!

> That said, it was a very complete survey, thanks to everybody 
> involved in putting this up! I hope it'll be of some use to the 
> foundation.

Thanks! I hope so too!