Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

[david@lang.hm]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> david@lang.hm wrote:
>>>> 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
>
> Ahh, you're totally right. :)
> I wonder if those users take part in a Git User's Survey. We'll see. :)

it depends on how it gets sent out.

if it's just sent to the git lists you won't have many of those users, if 
it's sent to lists of projects that use git (and/or publicised in the 
newsletters of those projects) we'll get a lot more of them.

due to the concern abot spamming too many lists, I'd suggest getting in 
contact with the project leaders and see what they would like or not like. 
I suspect that many of them will be happy to have the survey go out to 
their users so that git can improve based on the feedback and their users 
can think less about git and more about their project ;-)

if most of the project leaders are willing or eager to get the info out 
it seems reasonable to go ahead and send a single message out to the other 
lists, but if a lot of them are opposed, definantly don't send it anywhere 
you didn't get a response.

David Lang