From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Felipe Contreras" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:10:08 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530809010010yd46f2fevedac2682a330b8e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <200808312329.17312.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jakub Narebski" , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Scott Chacon" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 01 09:11:20 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 1Ka3ZI-00075x-97 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:11:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750914AbYIAHKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751052AbYIAHKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:10 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.228]:55063 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbYIAHKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:08 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so1673868rvb.1 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:10:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=PIgdBraPmDKM5zWP7d5u0vdzRZ05A/cx2F6Zs0wUWwY=; b=ck80R/IsQznUo1KVX2R0turtgL7VCmEQpSqoWI9Mf3WpG2NjWugSHe49cJGhORLvFE aX00kRkIW1f6gSd8/xp0HmE1IGGdaKUQsg2iLGswUr2CARycTUEOswG9AXDhGSNHL92K 79BYXtUvPkplIgcdPCzWS3fiJOOztgbjP0EbI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=QYzVmo5wUOgSf7Ccw7On/NJKUXMh9Kcj/6oE2wPPYufBbY9hXyPigWcFfaSatJQSyo JFKEYhQTTTfwUwJX/8RRoRcihRTRu133s7Aks4HOnIcc+hNXhHSkSeSXFh3bULT6RIgd qw5eateJcY+MKEThfV8/4q8neZTKQ2XwomC44= Received: by 10.140.201.8 with SMTP id y8mr3253935rvf.28.1220253008065; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.166.19 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:10:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Scott Chacon wrote: > This got on Hacker News and got a few comments on the length of the > survey. It did take me a pretty good amount of time to do. > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291560 > > I'm afraid the length and time required to fill it out will skew the > answers away from beginning type users, even though a lot of the > questions are aimed at them. > > It may be a good idea next year to do an adaptive survey, where there > are a few of the basic questions that could be answered in a few > minutes and if the user is a beginner it stops there, if they are more > advanced, it asks more advanced questions. I would be happy to help > set this up if there is interest, whoever is in charge of this. Well, the changes are saved even if you don't finish it, right? So you can fill it in different sessions. -- Felipe Contreras