From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200807230325.04184.jnareb@gmail.com> <200807231654.18019.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <200807240130.31649.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080723235359.GB12754@leksak.fem-net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Jakub Narebski , Robin Rosenberg , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Beyer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 24 07:03:02 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 1KLsyf-00038i-2X for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:02:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752530AbYGXFB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752517AbYGXFB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:57 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:47232 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752493AbYGXFB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:57 -0400 Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m6O51mp2012980; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:48 -0700 X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm In-Reply-To: <20080723235359.GB12754@leksak.fem-net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Dnia ?roda 23. lipca 2008 16:54, Robin Rosenberg napisa?: >>> 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: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 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,...?) > [...] >> >> The idea is, I think, to know what languages people could contribute >> to Git; see analysis of this question at GitSurvey2007 page on git wiki: >> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007#head-ecb5564d71e4093e2e93e508380407a26dbcbdea > > Oha, is this a Git User's Survey or a Git Potential Contributor's Survey? > I thought this is some kind of demographic question about the "programming > background" of the user. > >> And of course "I am not programmer" response... > > This doesn't make sense, does it? > I know that there are non-programmer's who use git for there > configuration files and other non-programming track files, but > this looks somehow wrong in this survey. there are non-programmers who use git to track projects that they want to be able to run the latest versions of. they don't program, just git pull; make;make install David Lang