This is a great idea. A question that might be worth adding is what backends are being used. I'd be interested to find out which ones are most heavily used.
A related question (though I don't know how easy it would be to be complete on) would be what plot types are used. Thanks for doing this! Mike On 03/28/2012 08:27 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote: > Paul Ivanov, on 2012-03-28 17:22, wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> with 1.1.1 just around the corner, I thought it'd be nice to put >> together an MPL user survey, similar to what Thomas Kluyver >> organized for IPython last year [1]. >> >> Here's what I've got so far [2], and here's the response one gets >> upon filling out the form: >> >> ----- >> Thanks for your feedback. >> >> As promised, here are the details of how to do various things: >> >> the official documentation is at: >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ >> >> to run the test suite: >> python -c "import matplotlib; matplotlib.test()" >> >> file bug reports and submit pull requests here: >> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib >> >> to post to the matplotlib-users list, subscribe here: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> ----- >> >> with an additional link at the bottom to look at the summary of previous >> respondents, which looks like [3]. >> >> How does this look to everyone? Any changes before I distribute >> this more widely? (Preferably not just via list, but also add a >> link to it on the main page, which is what IPython folks also did >> for a while). >> >> 1. http://ipython.org/usersurvey2011.html >> 2. >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ >> 3. >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ > Me again, just decided to inline the survey text, so that > suggestions can be more readily made here, without having to > following links, etc. > > > matplotlib user survey 2012 > > Stand up and be counted, matplotlib developers want to hear from you! All > questions are optional, we look forward to your feedback. > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > What country are you from? [ ] > > How long have you been using matplotlib? > > • (*) about a month > • ( )< 6 months > • ( ) about a year > • ( ) 2 to 4 years > • ( ) more than 4 years > > > What operating system do you run matplotlib on? (check all that apply) > > • [ ] *BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc) > • [ ] GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, etc) > • [ ] Mac OS X > • [ ] Windows > • [ ] Other: [ ] > > > What version of python do you use matplotlib on? (check all that apply) > > • [ ] 2.4 > • [ ] 2.5 > • [ ] 2.6 > • [ ] 2.7 > • [ ] 3.0 > • [ ] 3.1 > • [ ] 3.2 > > > You use matplotlib for: (check all that apply) > > • [ ] Academic development (research, publication graphics, etc.) > • [ ] Commercial development > • [ ] Personal hobby / recreationally > > > You *primarily* use matplotlib for: (check all that apply) > > • ( ) Academic development (research, publication graphics, etc.) > • ( ) Commercial development > • ( ) Personal hobby / recreationally > > > How do you use matplotlib? > [ ] > [ ] > [ ] > > How frequently do you *RUN* code which uses matplotlib? > > • ( ) daily > • ( ) a few times per week > • ( ) a few times per month > • ( ) less frequently > > > How frequently do you *WRITE* code which uses matplotlib? > > • ( ) daily > • ( ) a few times per week > • ( ) a few times per month > • ( ) less frequently > > > For the matplotlib project, do you know how to ... (check all that apply, > you'll get all the answers after you hit the submit button) > > • [ ] locate and navigate the official documentation > • [ ] run the test suite > • [ ] file bug reports on GitHub > • [ ] post to the matplotlib-users list > • [ ] submit patches / pull requests > > > In the past year, have you... (check all that apply) > > • [ ] accessed the official documentation > • [ ] run the test suite > • [ ] filed a bug report on GitHub > • [ ] posted to the matplotlib-users list > • [ ] submitted a patch / pull request > > > How do you get matplotlib on your machine? (check all that apply) > > • [ ] compile and install directly from source (zip / tarball / git > checkout) > • [ ] use official packages provided by matplotlib team > • [ ] use packages provided by my operating system (.deb, .rpm, ports, etc) > • [ ] Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) > http://enthought.com/products/epd.php > • [ ] Python(X,Y) http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/ > • [ ] Sage http://sagemath.org/ > • [ ] Other: [ ] > > > What other plotting libraries do you use and why? > [ ] > [ ] > [ ] > > How would you like matplotlib to improve in the future? > [ ] > [ ] > [ ] > > best, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
