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Drupal Administration survey II -- lookingvolunteers to do interviews
user name
 2006-07-31 06:54:23 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bouncesdrupal.org 
> [mailto:development-bouncesdrupal.org] On Behalf Of
Dries Buytaert
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:27 PM
> To: developmentdrupal.org
> Subject: Re: [development] Drupal Administration survey
II -- 
> lookingvolunteers to do interviews
> 
> 
> On 30 Jul 2006, at 19:59, Kieran Lal wrote:
> > I am looking for some volunteers to help re-design
the survey and  
> > make sure the questions will lead to effective
responses.   The  
> > survey should help the Drupal development
community understand  
> > Drupal users and the goal and needs of Drupal 
> administrators.  I am  
> > asking the Drupal development community to help
conduct 10 live  
> > interviews to help to refine the survey questions
and language
> 
> I can probably do one live interview.  How would it
work?
> 
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
> 
Not knowing what's involved I'd like a few more details. 
Is this 'us'
interviewing site admins/Drupal users from a set of
questions or?

-sp
Drupal Administration survey II -- looking for volunteers to do interviews
user name
 2006-07-31 16:06:19 

  


  

    
On Jul 30, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Steven Peck wrote:

 Is this 'us' interviewing site admins/Drupal users from a set of questions or?
 

For the last survey we started out with a basic set of questions like the ones below.  We found that some Drupal administrators were confused by the questions, or used different language then we had anticipated in describing their tasks.  So we changed the questions as we went along until they were concise and easy to answer.  When interviewing you are looking to be surprised, that means you are learning something, so don't be afraid to explore something new in the interview.

For example, I was surprised to see how many Drupal administrators spent a lot of their time reviewing and installing new modules.  This was a surprise and was validated strongly in the survey.   So we added the module categorization to the project module to help Drupal administrators.

Many of the tasks that were hard in Drupal 4.6 are not longer hard in Drupal 4.7. e.g. upgrading modules, installing modules, multiple comment administration, testing for clean URLs, blocks by roles, etc.   We need to discover through these interviews what's hard about administering Drupal 4.7.

Here's the questions:

How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator?
How frequently do you administer your Drupal site?
How long do you administer your Drupal site in a single sitting approximately?
Neil has requested more information about what users use Drupal for.  Try out some of the questions below to help us come up with the right question.
--How does Drupal help you accomplish your goals as a Drupal Administrator
--Why do you use Drupal?
--How does Drupal help the users of your Drupal site?

Can you get to your Drupal administration pages?  -- Validating question
What are some common Drupal administration tasks that you do?
What are some infrequent Drupal administration tasks that you do?
When I administrate my Drupal site, I find it is easy to?  When I administer my Drupal site, I find it hard to?
What are some other important Drupal administration tasks that we did not cover above?

Once we gather the results from your interviews that will help us to develop a multiple choice survey we can put on Drupal.org.

Cheers,
Kieran



  

  
  
   
     
    






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