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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 4, 2009, 08:24 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530907040124i32abe421x86e5c8f0839bf2fa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090704012635.GB39268@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, David Aguilar<davvid@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 02:19:25AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>>
>> > 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
>
> Umm, let's not.
>
> If they hate it, they'll be in the "unhappy" category.
> And if they hate it, I doubt they'll be filling out this survey.
>
> I've heard nothing but unhelpful, uneducated, and stubborn words
> from people who "hate git".  They usually have nothing productive
> to say and spend their time complaining about really petty things
> like the fact that they have to paste in a SHA-1 every now and
> then.  Worse still, they almost never have constructive
> criticism and thus will always be upset.
>
> Personally, I couldn't care less to hear what they have to
> say.  The only thing worse then the haters are the ones who
> actually believe that they would hate hg less
> (even when they've never tried hg!).
>
> Let's not encourage them by including including "I hate git"
> in our survey.

That's a good point, I just thought it would be nice to spot them; which would be easy if they answer "I hate it". But also, if there's an extreme positive (completely ecstatic) I thought there should be an extreme negative, just in case.

Probably not important at all.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras