Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:25:03AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>    02. What is your preferred non-programming language?
>   (or) What is the language you want computer communicate with you?

IMHO, the later wording of the question is much better.

>    05. How did you hear about Git?
>        (single choice?, in 2007 it was free-form)
>      - Linux kernel news (LKML, LWN, KernelTrap, KernelTraffic,...),
>        news site or magazine, blog entry, some project uses it,
>        presentation or seminar (real life, not on-line), SCM research,
>        IRC, mailing list, other Internet, other off-line, other(*)

I think "friend" would be a reasonable choice here too.

>    09. When did you start using git? From which version?
>      - pre 1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
>      + might be important when checking "what did you find hardest" etc.
>      + perhaps we should ask in addition to this question, or in place
>        of this question (replacing it) what git version one uses; it
>        should be multiple choice, and allow 'master', 'next', 'pu',
>        'dirty (with own modifications)' versions in addition.

I think: "What version do you use now?" and "How log do you use git?"
may be more useful here. From which version may give rather confusing
results because someone may "start" with 1.4 a week ago just because
that is the version included in Debian Etch and after realizing that
version 1.4 has serious usability issues upgraded git to 1.5. Besides,
1.5 is around for a long time now (as most as long as all previous
versions), so 1.5 can mean either one month of usage or 18 months...


Dmitry