# What questions should be in a community survey?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004>\
**Category:** Project Discussions\
**Created:** [July 3, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004 "2024-07-03T08:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004/1 "2024-07-03T08:25:14Z")

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Howdy folks,

It’s been **quite some time** since we last did any kind of community survey, and that’s something I’d like to fix. However, Ansible is a wide ecosystem, and many people care about many different things!

### So, I’d like to get some input - what questions would **you** like to know the answers to?

As a rule though, let’s not get sidetracked into _how_ to ask the questions - that’s my job. I expect this topic might get long enough without that debate, and you can question my design when I’ve done the draft 🙂. You are welcome to give me your rationale if you think it’s needed though 😛

So, whether it’s usage of a given feature, participation of events, or something I haven’t even thought of, hit me with your questions. I’ll put it all together in the coming weeks. Let’s go 🎉

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**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004/2 "2024-07-03T08:27:25Z")

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Some questions from me that will **definitely** be in place:

- What version of Ansible do you use
- How long have you been using Ansible (years)
- (some variant about whether you participate in the community)

The first two are “demographic representation” questions - I know the answers to these from other data sets, and can use that to weight _these_ answers so we can make statements more general than “this is what the survey said”.

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004/3 "2024-08-14T17:52:05Z")

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- How do you participate in the community? (If that isn’t included in the demographic questions already.)
- Maybe some free-text input: what aspect of Ansible annoys you most?
- How do you use Ansible? ansible-core + (expllicit or implicit list of) collections? Ansible community package? Execution Environments? (Here multiple answers should be possible.)
- If you know about the Ansible community package (probably best modelled as having a “I don’t know the package” option for these questions):
  - What do you think of the size of the Ansible community package? Some choices randing from too small to too large.
  - Do you think there should be more targeted (and thus smaller) versions of the community package? (Potential answers: No idea, No (just one version for everyone), Yes (a few versions), Yes (many versions).)
  - What do you think about deprecating and the Ansible community package, so everyone has to use ansible-core + collections?
  - Should [Ansible Documentation — Ansible Community Documentation](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/) include collections that are not part of the Ansible community package?

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**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-questions-should-be-in-a-community-survey/7004/4 "2024-09-11T05:19:57Z")

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With my #distro-packaging hat on, I’d support a question about users’ installations source of ansible/ansible-core with options being Python Packaging Index (pip); Distribution package (deb, rpm, etc.); Execution environment; Other