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

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SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Jun 26, 2009, 09:10 UTC
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2009/6/26 Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>:
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> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Good. :)
>
>> 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
>>
>> Please tell me what you think about questions and about selection
>> of possible answers in single choice/multiple choice questions.
>
> There seems to be some unnecessary overlap among questions 11, 16/17 and 18.
[...]
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>
> Some of this overlap is probably unavoidable, but I think some of it
> (especially between 16/17 and 18) can be eliminated without compromising the
> survey. Maybe we can integrate the non-overlapping parts of 18 into the
> other questions, thereby further decreasing the number of questions?
>
> BTW, 17 is just a continuation of 16, AFAICS. Is it possible to just repeat
> the column headers (to break up the table length) and still keep it as one
> question?
>
I agree.
[...]
>
> Otherwise, I like the survey very much.
Me too.
>
>> How long does it take to fill survey?
>
> ~ 5-7 minutes

For me it was 12 minutes, and it was without answering the free form questions and with good git knowledge.

Santi
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  1. Jakub NarebskiJun 25, 2009
  2. Johan HerlandJun 26, 2009
  3. Santi BéjarJun 26, 2009
  4. Felipe ContrerasJun 26, 2009
  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  6. Johan HerlandJun 26, 2009
  7. Jakub NarebskiJun 28, 2009
  8. Peter BaumannJun 26, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  10. Felipe ContrerasJun 26, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009
  12. Felipe ContrerasJun 26, 2009
  13. Jakub NarebskiJun 29, 2009
  14. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2009

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