From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:46:50 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530907041646i770b14f5ic5c0b76dc6189b17@mail.gmail.com> References: <200907030130.24417.jnareb@gmail.com> <20090704012635.GB39268@gmail.com> <94a0d4530907040124i32abe421x86e5c8f0839bf2fa@mail.gmail.com> <200907050043.58875.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Aguilar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 05 01:47:02 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 1MNEwf-0004cu-Md for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:47:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752918AbZGDXqt convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752557AbZGDXqs (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:46:48 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:56959 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752554AbZGDXqs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:46:48 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so344491fga.17 for ; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:46:50 -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=Ou4gG9vWCdeTgFisUnIBlaZYcUYXmAslivRB+oPN6q4=; b=OMn6Ael0/7I0M8pTIBaQdyu48iRuVpJpVHrGgaBYs3unqI49NlBB93SWWb+jrnGgh9 mT+DFs5lhBXZSfoWbnlyZzmSGIuLIBrBpQmFmltexLKuxp93QQNzKwSIUU0hJ/JRr7pm dBgpR2+kUQVnhKpbodbKnG9msuhD2qcK2oZrU= 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=Vwg67gcX2B9q63SS9CjMKQBs6jOEzq54Mqm3vckr3ZiETlyfNmUNrhAo+SAWcGZCqB xIfBV1THmEy3pPU91OJkZ3eDo6EGnlSCCNcX8kPwu/fP8blw0wNDyrIVFBsIIAIifVhQ YOZLb0ZY3x1H0JpP2z6MB5UREvCu4g1HNhlOM= Received: by 10.86.54.7 with SMTP id c7mr1545002fga.24.1246751210172; Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:46:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200907050043.58875.jnareb@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On Sat, 4 July 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:26 AM, David Aguilar wrot= e: >>> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 02:19:25AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>>> 2009/7/3 Jakub Narebski : >>>> >>>>> 20. Overall, how happy are you with Git? >>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* unhappy >>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* not so happy >>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* happy >>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* very happy >>>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0* completely ecstatic >>>> >>>> Let's leave room for git haters too: >>>> =C2=A0* 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 se= t > 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 survey= s, > so if we change it it would be harder to compare against surveys in p= ast > 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. --=20 =46elipe Contreras