Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

> > I find it a pity that my suggestion to ask about how comfortable
> > people are with the tone on the list did not make it into the survey.

Well, everybody knows who wanted to have that question in the survey, and 
everybody knows why.

> > Enough core developers make the tone sufficiently unconstructive to 
> > make it quite understandable that people are unwilling to ask 
> > questions here, in order to avoid getting their heads banged against a 
> > wall, virtual or not.

My experience is that people come here, ask questions, and get served.  
Often to stay.  So it cannot be that bad.

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> I think next to last question in the survey
> 
>  61. Did you have problems getting GIT help on mailing list or on IRC channel?
>      What were it? What could be improved?
> 
> was the place to put complaints about git mailing list. I didn't want to 
> add separate question because this survey has too many questions (is too 
> long) already.

That is the problem of most surveys.  Usually you can see that after 
50-75% of the questions, people are too bored, and just stop the survey 
right then and there.  Or, if forced, give stupid answers because they are 
annoyed with them.

Given that only one answer hinted at that AFAIR (it was something along 
the lines "I already wasted too much time on this survey, so I cannot work 
on git" or some such), I think you did a good job, though.

Again, thanks for all the work that you did/will do.  I know how tedious 
it is to evaluate such surveys, especially the free form answers.  Must 
have taken you days of real effort.

Ciao,
Dscho