From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:44:17 +0200 Message-ID: <200807241244.18034.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <200807231654.18019.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Robin Rosenberg , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 24 12:45:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLyKC-0006Ag-Q9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:45:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753890AbYGXKob convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753646AbYGXKob (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:31 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:10829 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753278AbYGXKo3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:44:29 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so580102ugf.16 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:44:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=WD3e1r5xqJ4EhEIqSB9jBzlHHpjQM4L53F3BZGlcy/s=; b=h7vTY8iri2IcKObygEFsdY0tuTlTbpGhJy/rg+M3ckC5Eop/OnrIsKKXN1e19YEEwm kRxul40pwjC7PozkyvJvJKWuhGt5KaPo8UJre/kqBwbCS1S2Ln/lCeUNWk9njFDcTOJZ TdKUYnx+Xa86zQ0wJwa2+rPHaeBHHMLpeJMgc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=M8Z+UjVbf7dGIAh4jZMrQQjNm+Fcr6ctrQAblCBDSn8fD5NcrPgGKZfX1ENvUMUus3 s9opkvaadkNCu/asPUCILsQ1N3//ivauCHQGWYaNcwIHulZXKotlqKH2vYQNC+9yVIrf PKZIMvwxuxSutELK0Jp8YRAxgxtqhgMNbVGbg= Received: by 10.67.116.19 with SMTP id t19mr788498ugm.56.1216896267584; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? ( [83.8.208.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e23sm12351253ugd.47.2008.07.24.03.44.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:44:26 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dnia =C5=9Broda 23. lipca 2008 18:00, Johannes Schindelin napisa=C5=82: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> onsdagen den 23 juli 2008 15.18.40 skrev Johannes Schindelin: >>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>> Some people prefer to stay anonymous, so I think email is out. >>>>>=20 >>>>>> 04. Which programming languages you are proficient with? >>>>>> (The choices include programming languages used by git) >>>>>> (zero or more: multiple choice) >>>>>> - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk >>>>>> + (should we include other languages, like C++, Java, PHP, >>>>>> Ruby,...?) >>>>>=20 >>>>> Yes, I think this should be a long list. >>>>=20 >>>> I'd rather not have a "laundry list" of languages. I have put C++= =20 >>>> because QGit uses it, Java because of egit/jgit, PHP for web=20 >>>> interfaces, Ruby because of GitHub and because of Ruby comminity=20 >>>> choosing Git. I should perhaps add Emacs Lisp, HTML+CSS and=20 >>>> JavaScript here. What other languages should be considered? >>>=20 >>> C# at least, since we had one (pretty unsuccessful) attempt at=20 >>> reimplementing Git in it. >>=20 >> What is the reason for the question? Do we want to know what languag= es >> people would like to contribute to Git in or do we want to know what= "kind" >> of programmers are attracted by Git? Making it a long list should m= ake >> it easier to tabulate the responses. >=20 > "could contribute" is more appropriate IMHO. Although you might be r= ight=20 > to ask "would like to contribute"... ;-) I think it is both. We would like to know what kind of programmers (and non-programmers) are attracted to Git, and also what languages could people contribute to Git. --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland