From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: [RFC (take 2) Git User's Survey 2007 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20070731013138.GA20052@spearce.org> References: <200707250358.58637.jnareb@gmail.com> <200707302256.38251.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070731003251.GW20052@spearce.org> <200707310245.56077.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070731010921.GY20052@spearce.org> <7v7iohicvh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Ciarrocchi To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 31 03:31:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFgaR-00063Z-4V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:31:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763623AbXGaBbo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761957AbXGaBbn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:43 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:39072 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762626AbXGaBbn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:43 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IFga9-0000oT-9M; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:29 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2744420FBAE; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:31:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v7iohicvh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > > > Might be nice to know how many people are interested in the > > Eclipse plugin. But aside from that, I don't think its worth > > including much about it. Maybe just have a checkbox under > > some heading like: > > > > What features is Git currently missing for your needs? > > Intresting. > > If we make this a Web based survey (and I think that is the > sensible thing to do --- many people do not want to send ballot > over mail), I wonder if we can randomize these multi-selection > answers to get unskewed results... Yes. I think its already been agreed upon to make this a web based survey, as that is easy to submit and accumlate the results through. Many web based survey systems allow you to randomize the order of the answers, for exactly the reason you state. Personally I've always found such surveys to be annoying, but on the other hand it really forces me to slow down and read the thing when I can't just binary search through the answers looking for what I think should be there. -- Shawn.