Hi Filip!
On 01/07/2013 03:48 PM, Filip Kosík wrote:
Are there some user profiles that would describe the required test participants? Stephanie's survey draft suggests that users (or one group of them) should be linux sys-admins. I think that very important group of test participants should include less experienced users (even linux novices). These profiles could affect the content of the questionnaire.
Yeh, I definitely agree that we need novices testing out the UI as well. I'm thinking ideally we'd have a mix, maybe 50/50, of novice and more technical users. The user profiles in particular that we have in mind are the following three:
1) Novice users (who may be new to Linux entirely) who just want to install a desktop system
2) Experienced Linux users who may dabble in system administration, are very technical, and enjoy trying out different technologies
3) Professional system administrators who work with advanced storage devices and configurations, typically on the job, not really for fun
Do these make sense? We could have variants of the test, some very general (simply to install Fedora in your preferred language/keyboard layout) and give those variants to the novice users, and then have technology-specific variants (install using BTRFS / install using RAID 10 / install using LVM with this layout) and give those variants to the self-identified experience & pro users?
~m