I contribute to open source projects written in Go: (single choice) 1,227 (34%) Infrequently 890 (25%) Never 345 (10%) Monthly 295 (8%) Weekly 234 (7%) As part of my daily routine 604 (17%) No response
I have contributed or am interested in contributing in the following ways to the Go community and Projects: (multiple choice) 892 (25%) Standard library 663 (18%) Tools (go guru, go vet, go doc, etc) 602 (17%) Tutorials 560 (16%) Documentation 557 (15%) Community support via Stack Overflow, Slack, mailing list, etc 472 (13%) Community involvement (workgroups, meetup attendance) 440 (12%) Being a technical mentor 374 (10%) Toolchain (compiler, linker, etc) 275 (8%) Go Project maintenance (issue triage) 246 (7%) Event planning (meetup, conference, etc) 236 (7%) Language translation 165 (5%) General UX & Design contributions 154 (4%) golang.org website (code, UX, IA, content, etc) 92 (3%) Other 1,621 (45%) No response
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: (strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, neutral, somewhat agree, agree, strongly agree) 2,091 (1, 3, 5, 19, 10, 14, 6%) I feel welcome to contribute to Go (compiler, standard library, documentation, website) (3.3:1) 2,168 (3, 7, 9, 16, 10, 11, 4%) The process of contributing to the Go project is clear to me (1.3:1) 1,900 (1, 2, 5, 22, 8, 11, 3%) The Go project leadership understands my needs (2.6:1) 2,114 (2, 4, 6, 18, 10, 14, 5%) I feel comfortable approaching the Go project leadership with questions and feedback (2.2:1) 2,374 (1, 1, 3, 12, 9, 24, 15%) I am confident in the leadership of Go (9.0:1)
What is the biggest challenge facing the Go project today? 71 (2.0%) community 68 (1.9%) google 63 (1.8%) generics 62 (1.7%) management 49 (1.4%) adoption 45 (1.3%) lack 43 (1.2%) features 43 (1.2%) people 40 (1.1%) dependency management 37 (1.0%) java 32 (0.9%) languages 31 (0.9%) keeping 29 (0.8%) c 27 (0.8%) developers 27 (0.8%) leadership 24 (0.7%) good 24 (0.7%) libraries 24 (0.7%) package 23 (0.6%) simple 21 (0.6%) core 21 (0.6%) feature 20 (0.6%) programming 20 (0.6%) team 2,771 (77.1%) No response