Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Date: Jul 23, 2008, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20080723235359.GB12754@leksak.fem-net>
In-Reply-To: <200807240130.31649.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Dnia ?roda 23. lipca 2008 16:54, Robin Rosenberg napisa?:
> > onsdagen den 23 juli 2008 15.18.40 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> >> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>>    04. Which programming languages you are proficient with?
> >>>>>        (The choices include programming languages used by git)
> >>>>>        (zero or more: multiple choice)
> >>>>>      - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk
> >>>>>      + (should we include other languages, like C++, Java, PHP,
> >>>>>         Ruby,...?)

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> 
> The idea is, I think, to know what languages people could contribute
> to Git; see analysis of this question at GitSurvey2007 page on git wiki:
>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007#head-ecb5564d71e4093e2e93e508380407a26dbcbdea

Oha, is this a Git User's Survey or a Git Potential Contributor's Survey? I thought this is some kind of demographic question about the "programming background" of the user.

> And of course "I am not programmer" response...

This doesn't make sense, does it? I know that there are non-programmer's who use git for there configuration files and other non-programming track files, but this looks somehow wrong in this survey.

Regards.

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