On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2011/3/22 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:
>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:28:01AM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> > > But even so, at least 25% of the git user base is on Windows,
>> > > according to the latest Git User Survey. That makes this stuff matter.
>> >
>> > The other point of view is that it will cause a regression without a
>> > compensating benefit for maybe more than 75% of the user base ;)
>
> [...]
>> (Warning: speculation ahead)
>> Also, I suspect the numbers of Windows developers are
>> underrepresented, for two reasons;
>> - I suspect that Windows developers are less likely to be subscribed
>> to the mailing lists where the Git User Survey are promoted.
>> - I suspect that most Windows users use EITHER Cygwin OR MinGW, but I
>> intentionally picked the largest of the Windows categories instead of
>> adding them up because the Git User Survey allowed people to answer
>> both MinGW and Cygwin.
>>
>> User Survey people, if your read this: please have a separate
>> operating system question next year. It's very valuable information!
>
> This information can be extracted from survey data, so there is no
> need for separate question.
>
> Prior to adding this information to GitSurvey2010 page on git wiki,
>
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010#09._On_which_operating_system.28s.29_do_you_use_Git.3F
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=GitSurvey2010&diff=14112&oldid=12212
>
> you could get this information by going to 'Analysis' page
>
> http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2010Analysis
>
> selecting last filter: 'F13 - OS: MS Windows (any)', writing down
> number of responses: 2671, and calculating percentage relative to
> number of all responses to Q9, i.e. 8541, and you get 31.27% of
> people using Git on MS Windows (not counting 'other, please specify'
> responses, but they are very few).
>
> Or you could have extracted this information from responses data,
> which is available on GitSurvey2010 page...
>
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>