Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2010 (resend)

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Sat, 10 July 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:

quoted

2010/7/3 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

quoted

I guess it is time for annual (so far) Git User's Survey.  Should
there be one?  When should it start, and how long should it last?

Yes, I think there should definitely be one! IMO one month is enough.

By the way, I think it is important that Git User's Survey 2010 lasts
past the holidays, i.e. into September or even October, even at the
cost of lasting two months, and not one month.

What do you think about this?

My feeling is that the longer it is, the easier it's for people to
postpone it, and then forget about it.

Hmmm... I haven't thought about this issue.  I certainly don't plan
for Git User's Survey 2010 to last longer than 2 months.  We can
always send / post reminders that the survey is coming to be closed.

The problem with duration of last year survey was that some announcements
got delayed because of holidays.

But I don't have a strong opinion either way.

I think that 15 August to 15 September, or to 15 October would be
good time (this is currently preliminary only).

quoted

quoted

quoted

== About you ==

NOTES:
^^^^^^
This section gives us a bit of demographical information about survey
responders.  Is it useful?  Should we leave it in survey, or remove it?

Should we for example include 'gender' as one of questions?  Perl Survey
2010 did.

I don't see the point of 'gender'. What does that tells us?

Well, one can say that 'age' doesn't tell us much either.

I disagree. I think younger people, specially the ones who have not
been tainted by CVS, might find git easier to learn. Without this
question it's not possible to find that correlation.

O.K., you convinced me: I'll leave age, but not add gender.
 

quoted

quoted

quoted

=== 10. What do you use to edit contents under version control with Git? ===
       What kind of editor, IDE or RAD you use working with Git?
(multiple choice, with other)

[...]

quoted

NOTES:
^^^^^^
Is this question useful, or should it be removed from survey?

I think this is useful to correlate communities.

Hmmm...

Sorry, I thought the answers would be the actual application used:
Vim, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, etc. If not, then I don't see the
point.

At least I remember finding out that most people use vim in some
previous survey, and I found that interesting.

The problem is with not going overboard with number of possible answers,
but we can always take results of previous survey as hint (though 
I don't remember if free-form questions are analyzed yet)/

quoted

quoted

quoted

=== 19. Overall, how happy are you with Git? ===
(single choice)

[...]

quoted

NOTES:
^^^^^^
I'm not sure if this question is at all useful.

I think it is. Otherwise how do we know that people are happy with it?

Well, I think there is rather heavy bias that if people are unhappy
with Git, they wouldn't be using it (well, unless they have to), and
they wouldn't be responding to this Git User's Survey (because they
didn't found it, for example).

There's people that would rather be using something else for various
reasons, but need to use git. Also, there's people that think that git
is the best option, but not particularly ecstatic with it.

All right, let's keep it.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland