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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008

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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2008, 05:13 UTC
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<200808312329.17312.jnareb@gmail.com>

This got on Hacker News and got a few comments on the length of the survey. It did take me a pretty good amount of time to do.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291560

I'm afraid the length and time required to fill it out will skew the answers away from beginning type users, even though a lot of the questions are aimed at them.

It may be a good idea next year to do an adaptive survey, where there are a few of the basic questions that could be answered in a few minutes and if the user is a beginner it stops there, if they are more advanced, it asks more advanced questions. I would be happy to help set this up if there is interest, whoever is in charge of this.

Scott
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> We would like to ask you a few questions about your use of the Git
> version control system. This survey is mainly to understand who is
> using Git, how and why.
>
> The results will be published to the Git wiki and discussed on the git
> mailing list.
>
> The survey would be open from 1 September till 10 October.
>
> Please devote a few minutes of your time to fill this simple
> questionnaire, it will help a lot the git community to understand your
> needs, what you like of git, and of course what you don't like  of it.
>
> The survey can be found here:
>  http://www.survs.com/survey?id=M3PIVU72&channel=2WXE4BVTW8
>
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  1. Jakub NarebskiAug 31, 2008
  2. Scott ChaconSep 1, 2008
  3. Felipe ContrerasSep 1, 2008
  4. David JohnSep 1, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiSep 1, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmSep 1, 2008
  7. Christian JaegerSep 3, 2008
  8. Eric BowmanSep 3, 2008
  9. Tor Arvid LundSep 3, 2008
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 3, 2008
  11. Marc-André LureauSep 5, 2008
  12. What do you use to send git patches? (was: [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008)Jakub Narebski, Sep 5, 2008
  13. Petr BaudisSep 5, 2008
  14. Jeff KingSep 5, 2008
  15. Felipe Carvalho OliveiraSep 3, 2008
  16. Jakub NarebskiSep 6, 2008
  17. Announcing Git User's Survey 2008Jakub Narebski, Sep 8, 2008
  18. [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008 has closedJakub Narebski, Oct 14, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiSep 1, 2008
  20. Petr BaudisSep 1, 2008

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