From: david@lang.hm
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:02:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0807232201310.3721@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20080723235359.GB12754@leksak.fem-net>

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Dnia ?roda 23. lipca 2008 16:54, Robin Rosenberg napisa?:
>>> onsdagen den 23 juli 2008 15.18.40 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    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,...?)
> [...]
>>
>> The idea is, I think, to know what languages people could contribute
>> to Git; see analysis of this question at GitSurvey2007 page on git wiki:
>>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007#head-ecb5564d71e4093e2e93e508380407a26dbcbdea
>
> Oha, is this a Git User's Survey or a Git Potential Contributor's Survey?
> I thought this is some kind of demographic question about the "programming
> background" of the user.
>
>> And of course "I am not programmer" response...
>
> This doesn't make sense, does it?
> I know that there are non-programmer's who use git for there
> configuration files and other non-programming track files, but
> this looks somehow wrong in this survey.

there are non-programmers who use git to track projects that they want to 
be able to run the latest versions of. they don't program, just git pull; 
make;make install

David Lang