Prince Riley wrote:

Frank's excellent post raises several issues about GPC that have been nagging at me for quite some time. As I read his post I began to understand several of the issues from the development/maintainers standpoint. There broad range of issue and concerns surrounding the future direction of GPC needs to have some refinement to provide the user community a clearer idea of the priorities and to help summarize their ideas for the maintainers. Perhaps a well structured online survey would both encourage greater response by the user community and make those ideas and opinions more accessible. I'm willing to take on the task of designing a draft user community survey, and making it accessible.

A noble goal, but judging from the discussion so far, opinions and goals seem to be so diverse that it might be hard to cover them in a survey (or IOW, this thread might already be this survey, in free form, since I suspect most interested parties have commented here by now).

But if you think a formal survey is useful, just go ahead and annouce it here ...

Frank