Hi all,

We conduct yearly user surveys to better under how our users utilize Ceph. The Ceph Foundation collects the data under the Community Data License agreement [0]; which helps the community make more of an informed decision of where our efforts in the development of future releases should go.

Back in August, I asked for the community to help draft the next survey [1]. I'm happy to provide a draft of the user survey for 2019. I'm sending this to the dev list in hopes of getting feedback before sending it to the Ceph users list.

The first question I received was using something other than Survey monkey due to it not being available in some regions. I have been using another third-party service for our Ceph Days CFP forms, and luckily they offer a survey service that isn't blocked.

A second question that came up was how to layout questions for multiple cluster deployments. An idea I had was having our general Ceph user survey [2] separate from the deployment questions [3]. The general questions only need to be answered once, and the deployment survey can be answered multiple times to capture the different configurations. I'm looking into a way to link the answers of both surveys together.

Any feedback, corrections or ideas?

[0] - https://cdla.io/sharing-1-0/

[1] - https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/ceph-users@ceph.io/thread/Q3NCHOJN45DPPZUGDXFRO7A7E2W22YUO/

[2] - https://ceph.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ceph-User-Survey-general.pdf

[3] - https://ceph.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ceph-User-Survey-Clusters.pdf

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