Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 4, 2009, 23:46 UTC
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- <94a0d4530907041646i770b14f5ic5c0b76dc6189b17@mail.gmail.com>
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- <200907050043.58875.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, David Aguilar<davvid@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. > > [...] >>> 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. > > Hmmm... > > On the one hand side it would be better, I think, to have balanced set > of answers, with neutral position in the middle, and unhappy/happy > along the axis. > > On the other hand that was the set of answers used in previous surveys, > so if we change it it would be harder to compare against surveys in past > years.
That's another good point, I don't have a strong opinion about this, and now I don't think there's any good reason for changing it.
Cheers.
-- Felipe Contreras