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

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 July 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> 2010/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>
>> > 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.

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

>> > == 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.

>> > === 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)
>> [...]
>> > 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.

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

-- 
Felipe Contreras