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On 01/16/2014 07:22 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 01/15/2014 10:41 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>> On 15/01/14 22:02, Russell Bryant wrote:
>>> On 01/13/2014 08:52 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>>> According to the most recent user survey, more than 30% of
>>>> users consume the XML API.
>>> 
>>> Do you have a reference with more detail on this?  Simply "30%"
>>> doesn't really mean much without more detail on what the
>>> question was, what the choices where, how many answered the
>>> question, etc ...
>> 
>> Survey questions can of course be found at 
>> https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/. This particular one was
>> found on the second page of the "About your OpenStack
>> Deployments" section:
>> 
>> """ What formats do you use for the API? [X] XML [X] JSON """
>> 
>> From the data from 2013-10-11:
>> 
>> 30.67% of survey takers ticked XML 69.32% of survey takers ticked
>> JSON
>> 
>> of course this question allowed overlap - the ticking of both
>> boxes. The overlap is 17.17% (or, if you prefer - 13.49% "pure"
>> XML, and 52% "pure" JSON)
>> 
>> 
>> 83% of deployments answered this question. As a comparison, this
>> is a similar number to how many answered the "hypervisors"
>> question (87%).
> 
> That also assumes that survey responders understood the question
> the way we are interpreting it. The actual question should have
> been:
> 
> What toolkits do you use to interface with the OpenStack API? *
> OpenStack command line (i.e. nova cli) * openstack python
> libraries * jclouds * deltacloud ... * other - please specify *
> none - wrote our own
> 
> If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what
> wire format are you using? * JSON * XML
> 
> If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what 
> programming language did you write it in? * C/C++ * C# * Java *
> Python * Perl * PHP * Ruby * Other (please specify)
> 
> 
> Because the question as worded assumes far too much shared context
> and understanding in what we were looking for. We all understood
> what we wanted, but didn't unroll that in a specific enough way in
> the user survey.

Agreed ...

Further, just saying "the API" could also be interpreted as including
the EC2 API, for example, which is only XML.

-- 
Russell Bryant