Re: Joint user survey with EnterpriseDB?

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.

> 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?

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Josh Berkus
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