Re: [RFCv3] Proposed questions for "Git User's Survey 2016", take three

Hello David,

On 7 September 2016 at 20:49, David Bainbridge
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Jakub,

I guess we could keep polishing this forever!

Anyway, a couple of last comments from me:
1. Could you use the new Git logo instead of the +++/---- ? It would show
some clear relationship with the Git community. The new logo has been in use
for a few years now so I guess many people will recognise this.

Good idea. Done.

Though I say I like old logo one better...

2. If survs have dropdowns for countries and ages (integers) it might be
worth using those instead of free text fields. Countries in particular
should have a drop-down if available. It could probably avoid some
post-survey correction.

Unfortunately Survs.com do not offer pre-made dropdowns for countries.
It offers a way to provide answers for a question by copy'n'paste of a plain
text file, for example with list of countries.

Coming up with correct list of countries is not easy, as I wrote:

JN> Survs.com do not offer list of countries as a pre-defined drop-down
JN> list (select, with search), and it looks like it is not as easy as
JN> I thought (though I could push responsibility to Locale::Country ;-):
JN>
JN>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
JN>
JN> This question originally read "What country are you from?"
JN> which might be thought as country of birth... which may not
JN> exist any longer.

Though perhaps I make it harder that it really is:
$ perl -MLocale::Country -e 'print join "\n", all_country_names();'

3. The comment: Both question "3. Have you found Git easy to learn?" and "4.
Have you found Git easy to use?" are about being it easy or hard in general;
for mathematically inclined you can think about it as a weighted average."
Not sure that this adds anything useful to the survey and could be removed,
or at least needs correcting to mention the correct questions.

Fixed question numbers, removed unnecessary and not useful note about
"weighted average".

OK, that's it from me!

Thanks!

Regards,
-- 
Jakub Narębski