Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 3, 2008, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20080903144552.GA27682@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809031607.19722.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This is partial summary of Git User's Survey 2008 [...]
> 
> 03. With which programming languages are you proficient?
> 
> Around 939 people answered this question.  C is most popular with 59%;
> Ruby and surprisingly a bit shell script programming have around second
> place, with about 52-53%.  More people are proficient with Python than 
> in Perl by about 1/3-1/4.  Very few people (25 responses, around 3%)
> feel proficient in Tcl/Tk, which means shallow pool of possible git-gui
> and gitk contributors.  Java is quite popular with around 42%, which
> gives hope in continued JGit/EGit development.

Yea, I liked seeing that result from our user base. 42% of the respondants know Java as a language. Not all of them may like programming in it for fun, but at least they claim they know it. :-)

In the IDE part Eclipse received 13% (124 responses), which is almost close to Emacs (20%, 193 responses). Sadly only 2% (19 responses) use EGit. There's probably a lot of reasons for that. Possibly the "egit_sux" tag on repo.or.cz. Or our lack of a stable update site that users can install reasonably stable versions from.

I think we've picked up 3 new contributors recently to the JGit/EGit project. Jonas Fonseca has started to use JGit inside of a NetBeans IDE plugin. Today he posted 2 patches, hopefully the first of many.

Tor Arne Vestb� has been working on improving EGit's resource decorator. His fork on repo.or.cz is a few days old, but it has some really good potential in there. I'm looking forward to seeing the final series from his work.

Charles O'Farrell joined us a few weeks back and added support for ref deletion, along with CLI for "jgit branch -d/-D". I think his time is rather limited, but the contributions are most appreciated.

And of course Marek Zawirski is still contributing, but I think he's back in classes so his time is a little bit more constrained.

Months back I think someone asked about including JGit in a commerically licensed product. Since its 3-clause BSD its quite possible to do. But I haven't seen anything materialize yet on that front.

-- 
Shawn.