From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - trial run Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:55:50 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530906260355r2d50fe0s244659599177c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <200906252122.51737.jnareb@gmail.com> <200906260932.43826.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier , Peter Baumann , Clemens Buchacher , David Aguilar , Erik Faye-Lund To: Johan Herland X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 26 12:56:01 2009 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 1MK968-0001yv-MJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:56:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754434AbZFZKzu convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:55:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754428AbZFZKzt (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:55:49 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:51397 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754382AbZFZKzt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:55:49 -0400 Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so2017883fxm.37 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:55:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0swZBlEAfzAeTp43h2P/jflqTDdA9PZUCrQ+vq4RMZM=; b=W0ktC4UxNJAenR/3bdwDIg831OcbkyFebeZBmr9jR7GV4/9TQYg0YYu+LHU7K13NpD 6prkk/O5JT1Z8o/5rF+GIxKv1NnA/+awXhRK0+luNIkVxsNFfNUZIMQRlbAKQNXUbQDX w/Pz350TQQcnaFtKX2GlSAuNU8E1LvHOtxEB4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ix200B2pTxipd+A7Whl5Ii/CQglCelpZbKKEC2T9vjSPEtfnRfe+1L0s76tw4Bo5gi cMKaP0RabK6mv/AyViBxfFeC+eFDcuINO0OGdOlH5BT8nZJ2ue59oxzEACeRyiuhMwb9 Al40bkE6TcZS8vEdWWO1PBOXg/mfWUdcWxszU= Received: by 10.86.31.18 with SMTP id e18mr3602380fge.72.1246013750985; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:55:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906260932.43826.johan@herland.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/6/26 Johan Herland : > On Thursday 25 June 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> 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. > > Good. :) > >> The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at >> the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com) >> >> =C2=A0 http://www.survs.com/survey?id=3D2PIMZGU0&channel=3DTFN2Y52K7= Y >> >> Please tell me what you think about questions and about selection >> of possible answers in single choice/multiple choice questions. > > There seems to be some unnecessary overlap among questions 11, 16/17 = and 18. > Examples: I found myself ticking off equivalent options like: > - 11/gitk, 17/gitk and 18/"gitk or other history viewer" > - 17/"git gui" and 18/"git-gui or other commit tool" > - 14/"via git-bundle", 15/"git bundle", 16/"git bundle" and 18/"git b= undle" > - 11/StGIT/Guilt/TopGit and 18/"path management interface" > - 17/"git reflog" and 18/reflog > - 17/"git stash" and 18/stash > - 16/"git difftool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool" > - 16/"git mergetool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool" > - 17/"git rebase -i" and 18/"interactive rebase" > - 16/"git add -i" and 18/"interactive commit/..." > - 16/"git filter-branch", 18/"git-filter-branch or cg-admin-rewritehi= st" and > 18/"git-filter-branch or equivalent" > - 11/"editor/IDE VC integration" and 18/"integration with IDE/editor" > > Some of this overlap is probably unavoidable, but I think some of it > (especially between 16/17 and 18) can be eliminated without compromis= ing the > survey. Maybe we can integrate the non-overlapping parts of 18 into t= he > other questions, thereby further decreasing the number of questions? > > BTW, 17 is just a continuation of 16, AFAICS. Is it possible to just = repeat > the column headers (to break up the table length) and still keep it a= s one > question? I agree, I found myself clicking on gitk multiple times (4?) --=20 =46elipe Contreras