Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

This is partail summary of Git User's Survey 2007 after 1 week of 
running. It is based on "View Text Results" page:
  http://www.survey.net.nz/members.php?page=results&qn=1304

We have around 445 individual responses, as compared to (I think) 115 
answers (Base = 115) for previous survey. That is quite a bit.


04. Which programming languages are you proficient with?

It losk like there is only 3/4 people proficient in Perl as compared
to Python; it looks like Python is more popular. C is most popular,
with only a few (if everything is all right with the results page)
people proficient in Tcl/Tk. I'm sorry, git-gui and gitk guys; it
looks like not many developers...

If the few developers are efficient and responsive due to their choice
of programming language, the net result might still work out fine.
But it might make the the project more susceptible to discontinuation
if existing developers can't sustain their involvement for some
reason.  On the other hand, code being inscrutable because of not
being expressible well in a more common language also carries its
dangers.

26. Which porcelains do you use?

Most people use core-git, some use cogito (the fact that it was
lately deprecated and is no longer developed notwithstanding), some
use StGIT, 3 even use pg (despite it is unmaintained). More people
use StGIT than Guilt, but this can be cause by the fact that Guilt
(formerly gq) is younger.

I found guilt essentially unusable for me due to its documentation.
There is only man-page level documentation for the various commands
comprising it, but the overall design is just "this is just like patch
sets in ..." uh, Monotone?  Don't remember which it was.  Anyway, the
docs were quite useless to me as someone who did _not_ previously use
the system mentioned as reference.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:45:40AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

I found guilt essentially unusable for me due to its documentation.
There is only man-page level documentation for the various commands
comprising it, but the overall design is just "this is just like patch
sets in ..." uh, Monotone?  Don't remember which it was.  Anyway, the
docs were quite useless to me as someone who did _not_ previously use
the system mentioned as reference.

The system guilt is more like is "quilt".  For people who are using
pure patches to maintain changes against mainline, quilt is the "rcs"
of that particular problem domain.  It would probably be a good idea
to have a pointer to Andreas Gruenbacher's, "How To Surive With Many
Patches or Introduction to Quilt" paper.

						- Ted