Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 23, 2008, 13:18 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807231414480.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <200807231508.42334.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > Some people prefer to stay anonymous, so I think email is out.
> > 
> > >    04. Which programming languages you are proficient with?
> > >        (The choices include programming languages used by git)
> > >        (zero or more: multiple choice)
> > >      - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk
> > >      + (should we include other languages, like C++, Java, PHP,
> > >         Ruby,...?)
> > 
> > Yes, I think this should be a long list.
> 
> I'd rather not have a "laundry list" of languages.  I have put C++
> because QGit uses it, Java because of egit/jgit, PHP for web
> interfaces, Ruby because of GitHub and because of Ruby comminity
> choosing Git.  I should perhaps add Emacs Lisp, HTML+CSS and
> JavaScript here.  What other languages should be considered?

C# at least, since we had one (pretty unsuccessful) attempt at reimplementing Git in it.

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> > >    07. What helped you most in learning to use it?
> > >        (free form question)
> > 
> > Is it possible to have multiple choice, with "other" (free-form)?
>
> But perhaps multiple choice with free-form "other" choice would be the 
> best?

Uhm, yes, you are right. Why not have multiple choice, with "other") (free-form)?

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> > >    42. Do you find traffic levels on Git mailing list OK.
> > >     -  yes/no? (optional)
> > 
> > /too low?  *ducksandrunsforcover*
> 
> ???

Well, was worth a try ;-)

Ciao, Dscho