Re: Announcing Git User's Survey 2016 [was: Working with public-inbox.org]

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 9, 2016, 13:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609091503410.129229@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <bb1ee52f-c4b6-ded3-19af-ddb7b65b376d@gmail.com>

Hi Kuba,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:

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> W dniu 28.08.2016 o 10:38, Johannes Schindelin pisze:
>
> > I would like to strongly caution against putting too much stock into
> > this users' survey. It is the best we have, granted. Yet I have not
> > heard from anybody that they participated in the survey, unless they
> > were also subscribed to the Git mailing list.
> 
> I tried in past and will try for this year Git User's Survey to be
> announced more widely than just Git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org).

I did not mean to criticise you. I think you are doing the best you can, and it is valuable.

My point is: many professional developers use Git not necessarily because they want to, but because their day job requires them to do so.

I *highly* doubt that we reach a notable fraction of those developers, even if they are arguably power users of any development tool, including Git.

The question is not so much how to advertise the survey. I skip almost all surveys I am asked to participate in, because I am just a little bit busy all the time. I feel that my colleagues do the same. Unless forced to take a survey, they skip it.

Ciao, Dscho