Usability survey

[satwikkansal]

Just an idea that came to my head and maybe we are doing it already but I'm not aware of it. As the main objective of coala-quickstart is to perform all the boilerplate work and simplify the usage of coala, one idea can be to collect the usability experience of our users for coala, see where the users face more friction and then make future design decisions.

The survey may have questions related to usability aspects of coala like

• The difficulty faced in installing bear dependencies.
• Do the users want more flexibility in functionalities that can be described in coafile.
• What was the most time-consuming part in using coala?
• Which part has highest learning curve?
• Any ideas to automate the current process of using coala.
• Any task that they had to perform redundantly?
• How easy it was to find the desired bears from hundreds of bears that coala has.
• How easy was it to write coafile and fill the bear settings with appropriate values.

We can create a Google form, or a form on webservices, and post an optional message in the CLI for interested users to fill the usability survey.

status/needs-discussion

[satwikkansal]

Strange that gitmate put "questions" label, afaik we have needs-discussion label enables everywhere in coala repositories. Can someone please change the label?

[meetmangukiya]

@satwikkansal we have staus/needs design, I haven't seen needs-discussion label yet :confused:

[satwikkansal]

oops, needs design will also work, thanks for changing :)

[ishanSrt]

somewhat implemented in the milestone green mode