Steven Jenkins | 5 Mar 16:27
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Suggestion: config-mgmt sponsorship of an annual CM survey

Summary: I've recently been talking with owners/developers of a few of
the different configuration management systems, and I would like to
suggest that this group work together to build an annual survey that
can then be advertised and used across the different communities, with
the input process for the survey being open, and the results being
open as well.

Background: I've noticed that many of the CM developers are doing
surveys within their own communities; however, many of the questions
are actually applicable across all CM communities.  Since there are
overlapping (competing, even) surveys, it's not realistic to have the
survey being done by ABC go out to the XYZ community, even though much
of the data would be usefully shared across the larger CM community.

Proposal: whomever is interested form a group to work on a generic
survey to be distributed annually that CM product owners could opt-in
to use in their communities.  The CM product owners who opt-in could
still do their own product-specific surveys within their own
communities, of course, to help with their own prioritize directions
for their products, but the generic survey would be cross-product,
with resulting data available to everyone.

Do people think that's a good idea, and who is interested in
participating in helping construct the survey?

Thanks,
Steven Jenkins
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com/

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