Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Jul 11, 2010, 17:42 UTC
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 10 July 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> 2010/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> I guess it is time for annual (so far) Git User's Survey. Should >>>> there be one? When should it start, and how long should it last? >>> >>> Yes, I think there should definitely be one! IMO one month is enough. >> >> By the way, I think it is important that Git User's Survey 2010 lasts >> past the holidays, i.e. into September or even October, even at the >> cost of lasting two months, and not one month. >> >> What do you think about this? > > My feeling is that the longer it is, the easier it's for people to > postpone it, and then forget about it.
Hmmm... I haven't thought about this issue. I certainly don't plan for Git User's Survey 2010 to last longer than 2 months. We can always send / post reminders that the survey is coming to be closed.
The problem with duration of last year survey was that some announcements got delayed because of holidays.
> But I don't have a strong opinion either way.
I think that 15 August to 15 September, or to 15 October would be good time (this is currently preliminary only).
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>>>> == About you == >>>> >>>> NOTES: >>>> ^^^^^^ >>>> This section gives us a bit of demographical information about survey >>>> responders. Is it useful? Should we leave it in survey, or remove it? >>>> >>>> Should we for example include 'gender' as one of questions? Perl Survey >>>> 2010 did. >>> >>> I don't see the point of 'gender'. What does that tells us? >> >> Well, one can say that 'age' doesn't tell us much either. > > I disagree. I think younger people, specially the ones who have not > been tainted by CVS, might find git easier to learn. Without this > question it's not possible to find that correlation.
O.K., you convinced me: I'll leave age, but not add gender.
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>>>> === 10. What do you use to edit contents under version control with Git? === >>>> What kind of editor, IDE or RAD you use working with Git? >>>> (multiple choice, with other) >>> [...] >>>> NOTES: >>>> ^^^^^^ >>>> Is this question useful, or should it be removed from survey? >>> >>> I think this is useful to correlate communities. >> >> Hmmm... > > Sorry, I thought the answers would be the actual application used: > Vim, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, etc. If not, then I don't see the > point. > > At least I remember finding out that most people use vim in some > previous survey, and I found that interesting.
The problem is with not going overboard with number of possible answers, but we can always take results of previous survey as hint (though I don't remember if free-form questions are analyzed yet)/
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>>>> === 19. Overall, how happy are you with Git? === >>>> (single choice) >>> [...] >>>> NOTES: >>>> ^^^^^^ >>>> I'm not sure if this question is at all useful. >>> >>> I think it is. Otherwise how do we know that people are happy with it? >> >> Well, I think there is rather heavy bias that if people are unhappy >> with Git, they wouldn't be using it (well, unless they have to), and >> they wouldn't be responding to this Git User's Survey (because they >> didn't found it, for example). > > There's people that would rather be using something else for various > reasons, but need to use git. Also, there's people that think that git > is the best option, but not particularly ecstatic with it.
All right, let's keep it.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland