[RFC v4] Git User's Survey 2008 (cover letters)

This is fourth (and hopefully last) revision of proposed questions and announcement for Git User's Survey 2008. This time is mainly about creating good cover (announcement) letter, and about where to announce the survey.

Survey would be at Survs.com, is spite of its deficiencies like requiring JavaScript to submit (which might get corrected before planned start of survey); it has some nice features which survey.net.nz (the site which was used for 2006 and 2007 surveys) doesn't have. Moving to other _free_ web survey site now would be difficult...

You can view current version of survey at provided survey link (see below); unfortunately proposed questions (and answers) diverged a bit from what was entered at Survs.com. It would be possible nevertheless to get current version of questions, comments, and possible answers, if required.

Questions that remains: where to send announcement about this survey, 
and what should be written in such announcement. I am thinking about 
asking to put announcement about Git User's Survey 2008 at the 
following places (in parenthesis there are people who, I think,
I can ask to put announcement about survey):
 * git.or.cz, Git Homepage (Petr 'Pasky' Baudis)
 * git-scm.com, alternate Git Homepage (Scott Chacon)
 * http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/FrontPage (it is wiki, after all)
 * #git channel subject (one of channel admins, but who?)
 * git.kernel.org (John 'Warthog9' Hawley)
 * repo.or.cz (Petr 'Pasky' Baudis)
 * gitorious.org (???)
 * github.com (???)
 * ...
What are other git hosting sites, or blogs, or other sites where to ask 
to put announcement about this survey?

Below there is new version of announcement email:
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To: git@vger.kernel.org, (probably other sites).
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008

Hello all,

We would like to ask you a few questions about your use of the Git version control system. This survey is mainly to understand who is using Git, how and why.

The results will be published to the Git wiki and discussed on the git mailing list.

The survey would be open from 1 September till 10 October.

Please devote a few minutes of your time to fill this simple questionnaire, it will help a lot the git community to understand your needs, what you like of git, and of course what you don't like of it.

The survey can be found here:
  http://www.survs.com/survey?id=M3PIVU72&channel=2WXE4BVTW8
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Note that above channel is currently _closed_. If you want to take
a peek at current version of the survey, use "test" channel:
  http://www.survs.com/survey?id=M3PIVU72&channel=9XYYGHJ77G
(it should be open, unless I am modifying some questions).  You can find 
summary analysis (without answers to free-form questions) at:
  http://www.survs.com/shareResults?survey=M3PIVU72&rndm=OKJQ45LAG8

 
Stephan Beyer proposed the following announcement template for news on 
{Open Source,programming,Linux}-related news sites (with some small 
modifications by me):
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Subject: Git User's Survey 2008 Begins

Two weeks after the major release of Git version 1.6.0, the Git community starts a survey containing 60 questions that can help to understand the users' needs, behavior, and what they like and dislike about Git.

<a href="http://git.or.cz">Git</a> is a distributed source code management system (or in other words: distributed version control system) that was initially written by Linus Torvalds for the Linux kernel development after the proprietary BitKeeper system stopped being free of charge in 2005. Quickly Git gained popularity and other Open Source projects like <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git">X.org</a>, <a href="http://git.videolan.org/">VLC</a> or <a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/git">WINE</a> began to use it.

There have already been user surveys in <a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey">2006</a> and <a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007">2007</a>. Since then, a lot has changed.

Git users are called upon to answer the questions until Oct 10, 2008. After that date, the results can be found on the <a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008">Git Wiki</a> in CSV format, and later in some evaluated form.

Link: http://www.survs.com/survey?id=M3PIVU72&channel=2WXE4BVTW8
  or: http://tinyurl.com/gitsurvey2008 (a short link, not yet generated)
  or: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008
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And below there is proposed announcement to be put on git-relates sites, like Git Homepage (git.or.cz and git-scm.com), GitWiki (FrontPage), and git hosting sites (repo.or.cz, kernel.org, freedesktop.org, gitorious, github,... -- >8 -- <a href="...">The Git User's Survey</a> is up!

Please devote a few minutes of your time to fill this simple questionnaire. It will help the Git community to understand your needs, what you like of Git, and, of course, what you don't like of it. -- 8< -- What is lacking is how the request/announcement _email_ to be send to administrators of those sites would look like. Help, please?

P.S. In 2006 I think the announcement was put only on git mailing list, in 2007 beside putting it on repo.or.cz, git.kernel.org and GitWiki it was send to mailing lists (and newsgroups) for many different projects which use git for development, as SCM of choice. But the number of such projects has grown enormously. I wonder if we should send survey announcements also to individual mailing lists for different projects, like WINE, OLPC, X.Org, etc.