From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:45:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20080903144552.GA27682@spearce.org> References: <200809031607.19722.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 03 16:49:34 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 1KatdN-0001ic-Fh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:47:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368AbYICOpy convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:45:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755251AbYICOpy (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:45:54 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:60121 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755150AbYICOpx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:45:53 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9874538375; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200809031607.19722.jnareb@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > This is partial summary of Git User's Survey 2008 [...] >=20 > 03. With which programming languages are you proficient? >=20 > Around 939 people answered this question. C is most popular with 59%= ; > Ruby and surprisingly a bit shell script programming have around seco= nd > place, with about 52-53%. More people are proficient with Python tha= n=20 > in Perl by about 1/3-1/4. Very few people (25 responses, around 3%) > feel proficient in Tcl/Tk, which means shallow pool of possible git-g= ui > and gitk contributors. Java is quite popular with around 42%, which > gives hope in continued JGit/EGit development. Yea, I liked seeing that result from our user base. 42% of the respondants know Java as a language. Not all of them may like programming in it for fun, but at least they claim they know it. :-) In the IDE part Eclipse received 13% (124 responses), which is almost close to Emacs (20%, 193 responses). Sadly only 2% (19 responses) use EGit. There's probably a lot of reasons for that. Possibly the "egit_sux" tag on repo.or.cz. Or our lack of a stable update site that users can install reasonably stable versions from. I think we've picked up 3 new contributors recently to the JGit/EGit project. Jonas Fonseca has started to use JGit inside of a NetBeans IDE plugin. Today he posted 2 patches, hopefully the first of many. Tor Arne Vestb=EF=BF=BD has been working on improving EGit's resource decorator. His fork on repo.or.cz is a few days old, but it has some really good potential in there. I'm looking forward to seeing the final series from his work. Charles O'Farrell joined us a few weeks back and added support for ref deletion, along with CLI for "jgit branch -d/-D". I think his time is rather limited, but the contributions are most appreciated. And of course Marek Zawirski is still contributing, but I think he's back in classes so his time is a little bit more constrained. Months back I think someone asked about including JGit in a commerically licensed product. Since its 3-clause BSD its quite possible to do. But I haven't seen anything materialize yet on that front. --=20 Shawn.