survey.yml

---
title: Perl Ecosystem Survey
pages:
  - title: Perl 5
    questions:
      - question: Which versions of Perl 5 are you using?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - 5.4
          - 5.0005
          - 5.6
          - 5.8
          - 5.10
          - 5.12
      - question: Which version of Perl are you using the most?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 5.4
          - 5.0005
          - 5.6
          - 5.8
          - 5.10
          - 5.12
      - question: Which is the oldest version of Perl you still target with your code?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 5.4
          - 5.0005
          - 5.6
          - 5.8
          - 5.10
          - 5.12
  - title: Perl 6
    questions:
      - question: How much Perl 6 do you know?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - I've read some of the documentation
          - I've read most/all of the documentation
          - I've participated in the mailing lists/irc. 
          - I've helped the effort by writing tests
          - I've helped with the documentation."
          - I wrote small snippets of code
          - I wrote full module(s)
          - I use it in production environment
      - question: If you haven't already used Perl 6 when do you plan to learn it?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - I plan to use Perl 5 from now on.
          - I plan to learn Perl 6 and use it for some new programs.
          - I plan to learn Perl 6 and use it for all new programs if the modules I need are available.
      - question: Any comment you might have regarding Perl 6?
        type: free_text
  - title: Environment
    questions:
      - question: Operating systems for development
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_oses.txt>
      - question: Primary Operating system for development
        type: single_choice
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_oses.txt>
      - question: Operating systems for deployment
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_oses.txt>
      - question: Primary Operating system for deployment
        type: single_choice
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_oses.txt>
      - question: Which version control systems are you using?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - CSV
          - Subversion
          - Git
          - Mercurius
      - question: Which RDBM are you using?
        other: yes
        answers:
          - MySQL
          - PostgreSQL
          - Oracle
          - SQL Server (MS)
          - SQLLite
      - question: Which NoSQL are you using?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - MongoDB
      - question: If you are using Windows, which Perl distribution do you use the most?
        other: yes
        answers: 
          - ActivePerl of ActiveState
          - StrawberryPerl
          - Cygwin
  - title: Other
    questions:
      - question: What do you use to create object oriented code in Perl?
        answers:
          - I don't write OOP
          - Moose
          - Calling bless on plain hash-refs
      - question: Which web development framework do you use?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - I don't develop web applications
          - plain old CGI
          - Dancer
          - Mojolicious
          - CGI::Appliction or Titanium
          - Catalyst
          - Maypole
          - Mason
          - thin PSGI layer
          - your own Plack::Middleware components
      - question: What kind of web applications do you develop?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - REST
          - SOAP
          - XML/RPC
          - traditional url=action
          - Ajax
      - question: Which web server are you using?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - Apache + CGI
          - Apache + mod_perl
          - Apache + FastCGI
      - question: Do you write web applications ... 
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - for fun
          - release open source
          - at work
      - question: Which concurrent execution tool do you use?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - POE
          - threads
          - fork
          - AnyEvent
      - question: What is your primary editor/IDE?
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_editors.txt>
      - question: What is your secondary editor/IDE?
        other: yes
        answers: <include/list_of_editors.yml>
  - title: Community Involvement
    questions:
      - question: Number of Perl Monger list subscribed to?
        answers:
          - 0
          - 1
          - 2-5
          - 6+
      - question: Which Perl related web forums are you using?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - http://perlmonks.org/
          - http://cpanforum.com/
          - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/perl/
      - question: Non-Perl related technical resources (TODO: list of news site)
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - Mashable http://mashable.com/
          - TechRepublic http://techrepublic.com.com/
          - Google Alert http://www.google.com/alerts
          - Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/
          - Linux Magazine http://www.linux-mag.com/
          - Slashdot http://slashdot.org/
          - ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/
          - ITPro http://www.itpro.co.uk/
          - PCWorld http://www.pcworld.com/
          - TG Daily http://www.tgdaily.com/
          - The H http://www.h-online.com/
          - Linux Today http://www.linuxtoday.com/
          - Datamation http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/
      - question: Where are you located in the Perl world?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - I am Larry Wall
          - p5porter
          - CPAN developer
          - Write open source code but not on CPAN
          - ...
      - question: What other question would you ask in the next survey?
        type: Free text
  - title: Perl Jobs
    questions:
      - question: As an employee, how difficult is it to find a job?
        answers:
          - There are (almost) no Perl jobs in my travel distance.
          - I could find easily elsewhere but I don't want to relocate.
          - The salary that is offered is too low compare to other offers.
      - question: As an employer, how difficult is it to find a perl developer?
      - question: Something about jobs.perl.org
  - title: Demographic
    questions:
      - question: Gender
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - Male
          - Female
          - Other (does not want to say)
      - question: Age group
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - Under 20
          - 20-24
          - 25-29
          - 30-39
          - 40-49
          - 50+
      - question: Country of residence
        type: single_choice
        answers: <include/list_of_countries.txt>
      - question: Country of origin (birth)
        type: single_choice
        answers: <include/list_of_countries.txt>
      - question: Highest qualification
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - TODO clarify these items, e.g. what is School?
          - School
          - Technical Collage
          - Bachelors
          - Masters
          - Phd
      - question: Collage major (higher education major) (is this really interesting?)
        answers:
         - Computing
         - Engineering
         - Science
         - Mathematics
         - Languages
         - Social Sciences
         - Creative Arts
         - Education
      - question: Annual Income (in USD)
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 0-30,00
          - 30,000-60,000
          - 60,000-90,000
          - 90,000-120,000
          - 120,000+
      - question: Industry sector
        answers: <include/industry_sectors.txt>
      - question: Job title (the highest position you hold in your workplace)
        type: single_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - Programmer
          - Developer
          - QA Engineer
          - Tester
          - System Administrator
          - CM Engineer
          - VP RnD
          - Team leader
          - CTO
          - CEO
          - Owner
          - System architect
          - Development Manager
          - Executive or mid-manager
      - question: Were you formally taught any Perl?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
         - None
         - Almost none
         - A little
         - Quite a bit
         - A lot
      - question: Would you thing attending a Perl course would improve your knowledge?
        answers:
          - Not at all
          - A little bit
          - Qite a bit
          - A lot
      - question: Were you formally taught any other dynamic languages?
        answers: TODO
      - question: Source of your perl knowledge?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - Books
          - perldocs
          - Peers
          - mailing list
          - IRC
      - question: Years spent programming computers
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 21-
          - 11-20
          - 7-10
          - 4-6
          - 1-3
          - less than 1
      - question: Years spent programming Perl
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 21-
          - 11-20
          - 7-10
          - 4-6
          - 1-3
          - less than 1
  - title: On the job
    questions:
      - question: Time at work spent programming
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - more than 2/3
          - 1/2-2/3
          - 1/3-1/2
          - < 1/3
          - ~ 0
      - question: Time at work spent not on code
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - more than 2/3
          - 1/2-2/3
          - 1/3-1/2
          - < 1/3
          - ~ 0
      - question: Time spent programming Perl
      - question: Spare time spent programming 
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - none
          - 1 hour / week
          - 2-6 hours / week
          - 1-2 hours / day 
          - 3+ hours / day
  - title: News
    questions:
      - question: Where do you get your Perl related news from?
        type: multiple_choice
        other: yes
        answers:
          - use.perl.org
          - blogs.perl.org
          - http://news.perlfoundation.org/
          - http://perl.org
          - Planet Perl http://planet.perl.org/
          - http://www.reddit.com/r/perl
          - http://news.ycombinator.com/
          - Planet Six http://planetsix.perl.org/
          - Perlsphere http://perlsphere.net/
          - Planet Parrot http://planet.parrotcode.org/
          - Ironman: http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/
      - question: The biggest issues the Perl ecosystem faces
      - question: Would you be interested in getting paid to work on open source Perl code? 
      - question: What is your major issues with the Perl ecosystem?
      - question: What is your employers (clients)  major issues with the Perl ecosystem?
      - question: What would you think if some people were paid to work on the perl core?
      - question: About the TPF grants: Do you think there should be more grant requests?
      - question: How much money would you be ready to contribute for devloping the Perl ecosystem  (USD / month)
        comment: (a mixture of developing and promoting perl, CPAN packages, open source perl applications)
        answers:
          - 0
          - 1-4
          - 5-9
          - 10-19
          - 20-29
          - 30-49
          - 50-
      - question: Number of CPAN modules you maintain?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 0
          - 1-5
          - 6-20
          - 21+
      - question: Number of CPAN modules you handed over to other people?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 0
          - 1-5
          - 6-20
          - 21+
      - question: Number of CPAN modules you contributed to? (e.g. bug report, documentation, test, code)
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - 0
          - 1-5
          - 6-20
          - 21+ 
      - question: How often have you reported a bug in the perl interpreter?
        type: single_choice
        answers:
          - Never
          - Once
          - Ocassionally
          - Frequently
      - question: How often have you provided code to fix a bug in the perl interpreter?
      - question: How often have you provided code to add a feature to the perl interpreter?
      - question: How often have you provided a bug report for a CPAN module?
      - question: How often have you provided code to fix a bug in a CPAN module?
      - question: How often have you provided code to add a feature to a CPAN module?
      - question: The above for any Perl (or even other?) open source project?
      - TODO: also include documentation in the above question
      - TODO: probably the info regarding the perl interpreter is not that onteresting) 
      - TODO: earlier ask how often have you found bugs in CPAN modules?
      - TODO: maybe change the answers to real numbers?
      - question: What would it take to have you be more involved in the Perl communty? To contribute test, or tests reports or bug reports etc.
        other: What holds you back from contributing more? How could it be made easier for your to contribute?
      - question: Which Advent calendar have you followed?
        type: multiple_choice
        answers:
          - Dancer http://advent.perldancer.org/2010
          - RJBS http://advent.rjbs.manxome.org/2010/
          - Catalyst http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar
          - Perl Advent http://perladvent.pm.org/2010/
          - Japanese Perlers in english http://perl-users.jp/articles/advent-calendar/2010/english/ 
          - Perl6 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/
        other: yes
      - question: How much does your employer (client) contribute code/patches/documentation back to the Perl community?
        answers:
          - None
          - Rarely
          - Encourages us to do so
          - Most of our code is released as Open Source 
      - question: Other languages used
        type: 10 rows in order to provide an ordering of the 10 most frequently used languages/technologies
        answers: <include/list_of_languages.txt>
      - question: Size of the company your work for
      - question: Number of people in the tech department