Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, David Aguilar<davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 02:19:25AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> 20. Overall, how happy are you with Git?
>>>>>    * unhappy
>>>>>    * not so happy
>>>>>    * happy
>>>>>    * very happy
>>>>>    * completely ecstatic
>>>>
>>>> Let's leave room for git haters too:
>>>>  * I hate it
>>>
>>> Umm, let's not.
>>>
>>> If they hate it, they'll be in the "unhappy" category.
>>> And if they hate it, I doubt they'll be filling out this survey.
>
> [...]
>>> Let's not encourage them by including including "I hate git"
>>> in our survey.
>>
>> That's a good point, I just thought it would be nice to spot them;
>> which would be easy if they answer "I hate it". But also, if there's
>> an extreme positive (completely ecstatic) I thought there should be an
>> extreme negative, just in case.
>>
>> Probably not important at all.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> On the one hand side it would be better, I think, to have balanced set
> of answers, with neutral position in the middle, and unhappy/happy
> along the axis.
>
> On the other hand that was the set of answers used in previous surveys,
> so if we change it it would be harder to compare against surveys in past
> years.

That's another good point, I don't have a strong opinion about this,
and now I don't think there's any good reason for changing it.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras