Drupal.org user survey

Introduction

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Section 1.

Q1. How would you describe yourself as a Drupal.org user?

• Learning developer
• Professional Drupal web developer
• Core contributor
• Personal module, theme, or profile maintainer
• Documentation team member
• Help others with support issues
• Other: [free response]

Q2. How often do you visit Drupal.org?

• Multiple times a day
• Once a day
• A few times a week
• Once a week
• Once a month or less

Q3. When you visit Drupal.org, how long do you spend on the site?

• Less than five minutes
• 5 - 29 minutes
• 30 - 59 minutes
• One to two hours
• More than two hours

Section 2.

Q4. What would you describe as your goals for visiting Drupal.org?

• Check API documentation
• Interact with other Drupal users
• Help in forums
• Interact with the community on bug fixes and features
• Explore available modules, themes, and install profiles
• Search for answers
• Find paid work
• Other: [free response]

What is easy to do on Drupal.org?

creating content
post comments
read front page news is easy
navigate forums
spend lots of time answering newbie questions
use the API ++easy
find modules you know the names of
contact a user
announcements of major happenings in the community
links that are valuable to contributors
find modules you don't know the name of
tracking your posts
find the actual drupal project and download it.
keep up on drupal-related news on the frontpage is easy.
search through the modules (it's hard too, but that's because of the sheer number) but it's well organized, so pretty easy over all
searching with google
tracking issues
submitting an issue

What is hard to do on Drupal.org?

site speed
find an old issue node that i recall reading
finding the good modules
helping maintain the handbook is really problematic
navigating the handbooks
link to /project/modules/date for seeing updated modules
searching
find handbook pages
that answer specific questions
find forum threads (I always just use the block nav)
find new modules
find modules that match a known feature set (but you don't know anything about the modules)
searching. Finding the information you need quickly. Navigating the site.
search by date field
decide on a new module if it's something I would need or if there is something that is better out there.
knowing where to go as a new user.
un-useful search results
use threaded forums
use the handbooks

Section X. Open-ended Questions

QX. What do you like most about drupal.org?

[Free response]

QX. What do you like least about drupal.org?

[Free response]

QX. What comments, if any, do you have on the design and administration of this survey?

[Free response]