If you’re an add-on developer who hosts an add-on on addons.mozilla.org, please take a moment to fill out our survey on the statistics dashboard we provide to developers. This will help us improve the dashboard and make better decisions about further integrating statistics with the public site. Thanks!
Posts Tagged ‘surveys’
Statistics Dashboard Survey
Friday, July 24th, 2009Survey results are in!
Friday, March 13th, 2009Big thanks to all of you who completed our developer survey last month. We got over 60 responses and we appreciate the thoughtful and detailed responses.
Our top 5 requests were:
- The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests)
- There is a real need for better documentation. (22 requests)
- Tutorials are scattered across the internet and are often out of date. (21 requests)
- The IDE’s/tools for writing and debugging extensions could be better. (15 requests)
- A few developers really want some sort of marketplace for extensions. (6 requests)
Developer Survey
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Hi everyone,
We have quite a few responses to the survey- as a friendly reminder we’ll be closing the survey this week and start compiling the results. So if you’d like your voice to be heard, please fill out the survey:
Thanks!
Nick
Extension Developer Survey
Monday, February 9th, 2009As promised, we’ve created a survey asking you how we can make extension development better.
Please take it and let us know how we can make your lives easier.
We’ll follow up in a couple weeks with results and plan some sessions where we can engage directly on the future of extensions and AMO.
Nick
Add-on Developers Survey: Raw Results
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008We recently conducted a survey of the add-on developer community. This post summarizes the quantitative results and some key findings only. There were several open-ended questions included on the survey. A special thank you to all those respondents that provided us with extensive feedback and great ideas. A summary of developer comments and suggestions will follow at a later date.
We had a total of 265 surveys completed. Note that some questions were mandatory, others were allowed to be left blank or unanswered and others allowed multiple answers. When multiple answers were permitted, the total number of responses for that question is shown.
The general summary is that most respondents were individual developers with 2 or more years of add-on development experience. Natually, they felt comfortable with JavaScript and XUL. They primarily built add-ons for Firefox and hosted them on their own (possibly, in additional to AMO).
These are simply the raw results, we’ll be applying some correlation analysis to draw out more interesting findings and conclusions.
Q1: Which of these best describes your status?
Q2. When did you write your first add-on? (for Firefox or other applications)
Q3. Select the applications (or devices) for which you have created add-ons, 3rd party applications, or plugins.
Q4. How many distinct add-ons have you created? (for Firefox or other applications)
Q5. Was the functionality of your Firefox add-on similar to your add-on for other applications?
Q6. If you have ever started to develop an add-on and then aborted the project, what were the primary factors in your decision to stop development?
Q7. What tool(s) did you use to develop your add-on(s) (for Firefox or other applications) ?
Q8. What tools would help you develop more efficiently?
Q9. How would you rate the ease of development of Firefox add-ons?
Q10. How would you rate Mozilla’s developer documentation?
Q11. How familiar are you with JavaScript and XUL?
Q12-Q14. What were the top three challenging aspects of building your add-on?
Q15. Where do you host your add-on?
Add-on Developer Survey
Friday, September 12th, 2008The Mozilla add-ons team is always looks for insights in order to improve the development experience and toolset for add-ons authors. We have put together a Add-on Developer Survey that tries to capture some of that with a short series of questions. There is also ample room for free form comments and feedback which we will read intently.
So, if you are an add-on author or themer, please fill out the survey. We’ll be summarizing the results in a few weeks.
(Colophon: We have attempted to use Google Docs “Form Fill” feature to collect this data into a spreadsheet – will let you know how that goes for us.)
