2024 Embedded Survey Review

[jamesmunns]

CC #782

This follows the requested format for submission.

Once we have reviewed and merged this PR, I will copy the survey "upstream" to submit it to the survey team.

Important notes

These are primarily the questions I originally proposed:

• All questions are optional
• There are 13 questions total
• When there are multiple choice options naming projects, I've made them alphabetical for fairness
• All "other" options allow for free entry

We do want to make this as short as possible to make it easy for people to complete, so if people think we can reasonably cut items, then I am open to that! If there are more important questions to be asking, I am open to that as well!

If there are any multiple choice options that I missed, feel free to add them (alphabetically) as PR suggestions

[jamessizeland]

Best to have an option under using embedded rust at work for shipping none, could be for internal use only, evaluation, future intention, etc.

[jamesmunns]

Best to have an option under using embedded rust at work for shipping none, could be for internal use only, evaluation, future intention, etc.

Added in 11e66a1

[adamhott]

These questions look great! I had a question, on this survey question.

If using for work, how many devices/year is your company shipping currently using Rust?

Do we want to call out "embedded devices" rather than "devices", or does that matter?

I could just be overthinking this.

[jamesmunns]

Addressed all review comments so far!

[jamesmunns]

Regarding timeline, I would propose:

• Aug 20th, we approve and merge this PR
• Aug 20th, I open a PR to the surveys repo to formally request the survey with the contents from this PR - I'll ask that we open this survey for two calendar weeks, to allow us enough time to coordinate the PR for this.
  • This should allow us to mention this during two WG meetings
  • This also allows us to appear in an Embedded Rustacean newsletter (next issue Aug 30th)
• Aug 22nd (approximately) we "go live"
• Sep 19th (approximately) we close responses
• Some point shortly afterwards, the embedded WG will receive the responses
• Some point after that, we should post a blog post detailing this, potentially on the "Inside Rust" blog

[Kobzol]

Looks good overall. Left one suggestion.

[jamesmunns]

Outstanding questions to discuss in the meeting:

• Do we want to enumerate "popular crates" to seed the list? (see this comment )
• Do we want to enumerate "common blockers" to seed the list? (see this comment )
• Do we want to add a question asking what other languages are used in embedded Rust projects? (see this comment )

[Kobzol]

LGTM. Btw, I'm leaving for a vacation for a week on Sunday. If you want to get the survey up & running by then, it would be great if we could get the survey PR up soon-ish so that I can prepare the questions and launch the survey :) But I think that your original timeplan already counted with that.

[jamesmunns]

@Kobzol if this gets merged during our meeting (now), I'll have it submitted within an hour :)

btw do you have any thoughts or objections for running this for 4w instead of 2w? Some folks expressed concern that it's currently vacation season, and it might be better to run it a whole month.

[Kobzol]

btw do you have any thoughts or objections for running this for 4w instead of 2w? Some folks expressed concern that it's currently vacation season, and it might be better to run it a whole month.

Sounds reasonable, we did something similar with the annual survey last year, because we were only able to get it out just before the December holiday season.