Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 3, 2009, 23:19 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907031619x3d1296eenf9198b4ab5e43f67@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200907030130.24417.jnareb@gmail.com>

2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

> The last replacements reminds me of the problem of announcing this
> survey.  Where to submit note announcing "Git User's Survey 2009"
> (tentative date of survey is 15 July 2009 -- 15 September 2009)?
> How such note should look like?

I'm not sure what you mean. I think the best place to announce these kinds of things is through a post in an official blog.

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> 8. How do/did you obtain Git (install and/or upgrade)?
>    * binary package (includes automatic updates in usual situation)
>    * source package or script
>    * source tarball
>    * pull from (main) repository
>
> Explanation: binary package covers pre-compiled binary (e.g. from rpm
> or deb binary packages); source package covers things like deb-src and
> SRPMS/src.rpm; source script is meant to cover installation in
> source-based distributions, like 'emerge' in Gentoo, and it includes
> automatic update in source-based Linux distributions.
>
> Note that this question is multiple choices question because one can
> install Git in different ways on different machines or on different
> operating systems.

It's a bit complicated and missing some, how about:
8. How do/did you obtain Git?
 * package management (apt, yum, etc.)
 * binary package or installer (.deb, .exe) <-
 * source package or script (deb-src, src.rpm)
 * source tarball
 * pull from (main) repository

- 9. What operating system do you use Git on?
+ 9. On which operating system(s) do you use Git?

- 13. Which git hosting site do you use for your projects?
+ 13. Which hosting site(s) do you use for your projects?

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> 20. Overall, how happy are you with Git?
>    * unhappy
>    * not so happy
>    * happy
>    * very happy
>    * completely ecstatic

Let's leave room for git haters too:
 * I hate it

- 21. In you opinion, which areas in Git needs improvement?
+ 21. In you opinion, which areas of Git need improvement?

- 23. How do you compare current version with version from year ago?
+ 23. How do you compare the current version with the one from one year ago?

> 25. Have you tried to get Git help from other people?
> 26. What channel did you use to request help?
> 27. If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly and to your liking?

"If yes" on 27 is out of context:

- 25. Have you tried to get Git help from other people?
+ 25. Have you tried to get help regarding Git from other people?
26. If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly and to your liking?
27. What channel did you use to request help?

- 28. Which communication channels do you use?
+ 28. Which communication channel(s) do you use?

- 29. How did you heard about this Git User's Survey?
+ 29. How did you hear about this survey?

- 30. What other comments or suggestions do you have that are not
covered by the questions above?
+ 30. Any other comments or suggestions?

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras