From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <200807231508.42334.jnareb@gmail.com> <200807231654.18019.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 23 18:02:29 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 1KLgmV-0000xM-Md for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:01:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752649AbYGWQAf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752702AbYGWQAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57812 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752232AbYGWQAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:34 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2008 16:00:32 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2008 18:00:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+1gGB3/zG1IJ2Cy5Rpo0di5bPDIqduYp3wFcGjph Nnrhzq4BZRWTV5 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <200807231654.18019.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > onsdagen den 23 juli 2008 15.18.40 skrev Johannes Schindelin: > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > > > > Some people prefer to stay anonymous, so I think email is out. > > > > > > > > > 04. Which programming languages you are proficient with? > > > > > (The choices include programming languages used by git) > > > > > (zero or more: multiple choice) > > > > > - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk > > > > > + (should we include other languages, like C++, Java, PHP, > > > > > Ruby,...?) > > > > > > > > Yes, I think this should be a long list. > > > > > > I'd rather not have a "laundry list" of languages. I have put C++ > > > because QGit uses it, Java because of egit/jgit, PHP for web > > > interfaces, Ruby because of GitHub and because of Ruby comminity > > > choosing Git. I should perhaps add Emacs Lisp, HTML+CSS and > > > JavaScript here. What other languages should be considered? > > > > C# at least, since we had one (pretty unsuccessful) attempt at > > reimplementing Git in it. > > What is the reason for the question? Do we want to know what languages > people would like to contribute to Git in or do we want to know what "kind" > of programmers are attracted by Git? Making it a long list should make > it easier to tabulate the responses. "could contribute" is more appropriate IMHO. Although you might be right to ask "would like to contribute"... ;-) Ciao, Dscho