Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - trial run

[Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:22:50PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> I have created _proposed_ version of questions for upcoming 
> "Git User's Survey 2009", based on (a bit of) feedback on git
> mailing list:
>   "[RFH] Questions for Git User's Survey 2009"
>   Msg-Id: <200905291855.03328.jnareb@gmail.com>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/120287
> and comments on #git IRC channel on FreeNode.  
> 
> Current version of survey has 30 questions, as compared to 
> 60 questions last year; the number of free-form essay questions
> were also greatly reduced.
> 
> 
> The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at
> the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com)
> 
>   http://www.survs.com/survey?id=2PIMZGU0&channel=TFN2Y52K7Y
> 
> Please tell me what you think about questions and about selection
> of possible answers in single choice/multiple choice questions.
> If you have better idea for theme (mainly background and font 
> colors, and perhaps font size), help would be appreciated.  Is it
> better to use vertical form everywhere, or should we use horizontal
> layout of answers for questions with short number of possible
> answers?  How long does it take to fill survey?
> 


Remarks:

- I find the visual layout of footnotes to 10 ("What do you use to edit contents under
  version control with Git?  What kind of editor, IDE or RAD you use working
  with Git?") a little distracting. Could those at least be seperated by a newline?


- I'm not sure if question 16 ("How often do you use the following forms of git
  commands or extra git tools?") isn't a little too much. At least I got scared by looking
  at all questions in there and I imagine that people get easily bored answering them.

- The same might be true for question 17 and 18.


Overall, I like the survey.

-Peter