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Social factors influencing pull request acceptance decisions from pull request submitters' perspective

Thank you for taking this survey. This survey is part of a broad research study at IIIT Delhi. All responses are confidential and anonymous and will be reported only in aggregated form.

Demographics

1. Please select your appropriate age level

2. Please state your gender

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

3. Where do you currently reside?

4. Who do you work for?

Industry
Academia
Non-profit
Freelance
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

5. Which of the following best describes your role in GitHub?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

6. How many years have you been programming?

How many years have you worked on projects that are developed in a geographically distributed manner?

8. How many years have you been working on open source projects?

Factors Influencing Results

9. Please rate the importance that the following factors play in the DECISION TO ACCEPT OR REJECT a pull request. *This question is required.

Space Cell	Very important	Important	Moderately important	Of little importance	Unimportant	I don\'t know
Pull requester track record	Pull requester track record: Very important	Pull requester track record: Important	Pull requester track record: Moderately important	Pull requester track record: Of little importance	Pull requester track record: Unimportant	Pull requester track record: I don\'t know
Popularity of pull requester	Popularity of pull requester: Very important	Popularity of pull requester: Important	Popularity of pull requester: Moderately important	Popularity of pull requester: Of little importance	Popularity of pull requester: Unimportant	Popularity of pull requester: I don\'t know
Worked together in past	Worked together in past: Very important	Worked together in past: Important	Worked together in past: Moderately important	Worked together in past: Of little importance	Worked together in past: Unimportant	Worked together in past: I don\'t know
Project membership of pull requester	Project membership of pull requester: Very important	Project membership of pull requester: Important	Project membership of pull requester: Moderately important	Project membership of pull requester: Of little importance	Project membership of pull requester: Unimportant	Project membership of pull requester: I don\'t know
Number of lines changed	Number of lines changed: Very important	Number of lines changed: Important	Number of lines changed: Moderately important	Number of lines changed: Of little importance	Number of lines changed: Unimportant	Number of lines changed: I don\'t know
Existence of tests in the pull request	Existence of tests in the pull request: Very important	Existence of tests in the pull request: Important	Existence of tests in the pull request: Moderately important	Existence of tests in the pull request: Of little importance	Existence of tests in the pull request: Unimportant	Existence of tests in the pull request: I don\'t know
Pull requester gender	Pull requester gender : Very important	Pull requester gender : Important	Pull requester gender : Moderately important	Pull requester gender : Of little importance	Pull requester gender : Unimportant	Pull requester gender : I don\'t know
Pull requester nationality	Pull requester nationality: Very important	Pull requester nationality: Important	Pull requester nationality: Moderately important	Pull requester nationality: Of little importance	Pull requester nationality: Unimportant	Pull requester nationality: I don\'t know

10. What social factors (other than the ones mentioned above) influence the chances of your pull requests getting accepted?

11. Did you experience bias based on your nationality in getting your pull requests accepted? *This question is required.

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