Re: Joint user survey with EnterpriseDB?

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:59 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 6/30/09 8:52 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:11 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> >> So it sounds like, if we improve the questions and take the sales lead
> >> stuff out, the community is fine with advertising the survey on
> >> www.postgresql.org?
> >
> > What is special about this one company doing the survey? AFAICS,
> > nothing, it's just another way to do marketing. I'm told that's fair
> > game these days though. What I'm more concerned about is why PostgreSQL
> > isn't discussing doing this itself.
>
> Mainly that they're doing the work to get the survey up.

If people want to contribute, that's fine. If they don't want to
contribute we have to be careful about accepting help-with-strings. We
may as well move towards an advertising driven model, if we believe
this.

> > We (PostgreSL project) should be sending out an email one month after
> > release of 8.4 to elicit structured feedback. This should be an integral
> > part of the release process.
>
> I completely agree.  Volunteers?

Happy to.

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