Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:49:41PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> First just satisfies demographic curiosity.  Second is more question
> about internationalization (i18n).

I think demographic is largely covered by the first question about
country. As to i18n, I don't think it is fully covered just by the
question about one's language preference to communicate with computer
(which is probably is more correctly to call localization). Possible
questions related to i18n are:
- Do you use file names with non-ASCII characters?
- Do you use text files with non-ASCII characters?
- Do you (or members of your team) use computers with different
  character sets and have to deal with non-ASCII characters?

But I guess we do not want to have so many questions. So, maybe
something simple instead:
- Are you satisfied with support for non-ASCII characters in Git?

> Should "What version do you use now?" be multiple choice (using git
> on more than one machine / operating system)?

I think we already have another question about what OS one uses.
So I believe it should be only version number here.

> What should be possible
> choices for "How long do you use git?"?  Perhaps.
> 
>       10. How long do you use git?
>           (single choice)
>        -  never/few days/few weeks/month/few months/year/few years/
>           from beginning/I wrote it(*)
>        +  (*) just kidding ;-)

I would rather use numbers like that:

never
less than month
1-3 months
3-6 months
6-12 months
1-2 year
more than 2 years
from the beginning

Dmitry