Re: [RFH] Questions for Git User's Survey 2009

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 30, 2009, 08:53 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530905300153l361ed7d9l4376cb4c85001772@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200905291855.03328.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Even though analyzing answers from "Git User's Survey 2008" is not
> finished (although I have added partial results for questions with a
> free-form part, see http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008), it looks
> like there is time for annual Git User's Survey (which takes place in
> summer)... or at least thinking about possible questions.  Coming up
> with a good list of questions (see below) would take time.
>
> More than 55% of people answering survey wanted to have Git User's
> Survey repeated, with below 1% of people who didn't want for there
> to be next year survey.
>
> On the other hand one of common complaints was that the survey was
> much too long, with around 60 questions (one question was split into
> two). It was requested for survey in this year to have maximum 20
> questions.
>
>
> So what I would like to have is to come up with a LIST OF QUESTIONS
> and possible answers; I'd like to limit number of questions with
> free-form part, and reduce number of free-form questions to absolute
> minimum; they are pain to analyse with so large number of responses.
>
> Please write also _why_ you would want a question; what we can learn
> from it, how it can help in developing git.
>
> Thanks in advance

Personally I think last year's survey was great, but it was missing questions regarding git's user interface. How good is it? What would you improve, etc.

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Felipe Contreras