Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - trial run

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 26, 2009, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530906261205o6e4195dub4e38e8dccbd9258@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200906261744.04610.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 26 June 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> 2009/6/25 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>
>> > I have created _proposed_ version of questions for upcoming
>> > "Git User's Survey 2009", based on (a bit of) feedback on git
>> > mailing list:
>> >  "[RFH] Questions for Git User's Survey 2009"
>> >  Msg-Id: <200905291855.03328.jnareb@gmail.com>
>> >  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/120287
>> > and comments on #git IRC channel on FreeNode.
>> >
>> > Current version of survey has 30 questions, as compared to
>> > 60 questions last year; the number of free-form essay questions
>> > were also greatly reduced.
>> >
>> >
>> > The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at
>> > the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com)
>> >
>> >  http://www.survs.com/survey?id=2PIMZGU0&channel=TFN2Y52K7Y

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>  +8. How did/do you obtain Git?
>
> It is IMHO more interesting how people upgrade Git, than just how
> they installed it.

Sure, but it can be assumed from how it was installed:
 * Some kind of package management (automatically updated)
 * In other binary form (manually)
 * From a source tarball (manually)
 * From git.git repository (manually)

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>> Also, I would like to see a list of areas users would like improvements:
>> XX. In you opinion, which areas need improvement?
>>  * user-interface
>>  * documentation
>>  * performance
>>  * more features
>>  * other
>>
>> Is there a way for users to assign points? eg. user-interface: 2,
>> documentation: 1, more features: 1
>
> We can always use 'matrix' form, with columns corresponding to importance
> of a given area for improvement (1-3, or 1-5 numeric range).  Because
> asking user to order from most important to least important (one can
> enforce this on Survs.com by requiring only one answer with given column
> selected) would be too difficult and confusing.

I see, in that case I think a matrix form would do.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras