diff --git a/config/survey.jl b/config/survey.jl
index dcb3725..f1f0d06 100644
--- a/config/survey.jl
+++ b/config/survey.jl
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ the questions you see now will not neccesarily be in the final survey.",
             "Could you list some of your favourite packages? (comma-seperated)";
             validators = [t -> if length(split(t, ',')) > 10
                     "That's a lot of packages. Surely you can cut that down to a top 10?"
-                          end, wordlimit(30), charlimit(200)]),
+                          end, wordlimit(30), charlimit(200)],
+            mandatory=false),
         MultiSelect(:package_contact_method,
             "If you wish to contact the package maintainer(s), how do you do so?",
             ["Mailing list", "Email", "GitHub", :other]),
@@ -158,7 +159,8 @@ the questions you see now will not neccesarily be in the final survey.",
              "Wariness of the review process",
              "Bad prior experience",
              "FSF paperwork (for GNU ELPA)" => "FSF paperwork",
-             :other]),
+             :other],
+            mandatory=false),
         TextArea(:package_submission,
             "If you write packages, how you you decide which repositories to submit it to (if any)?",
             mandatory=false),