Brian de Alwis <brian.de.alwis@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello everybody. I'm part of a team conducting a survey to understand > the perceived benefits and challenges of using a decentralized or > distributed version control systems (DVCS) in software development. > Presuming that most people on this list have used a DVCS :) we would > like to invite all people over 18 years old to participate in our survey > and share your experiences. Details on partcipating are below. > Thanks for your time! > > Brian. I don't know what channels did you use to distribute information about this survey, but you might want to consider the following additional channels (some of those channels were used in announcing Git User's Survey in 2006-2008, see e.g. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2008): * Mailing lists for other DVCS you include in your survey, like Bazaar and Monotone (in addition to current Git and Mercurial), perhaps using GMane news (NNTP, Usenet) to mail interface. * Homepages and/or wikis for DVCS such as Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Monotone, Darcs. Git User's Surveys were announced on Git homepage (http://git-scm.com) and Git Wiki (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/) * News / Announcement sections of software hosting sites, and/or blogs for those hosting sites. Git User's Surveys were announced on git hosting sites: repo.or.cz, git.kernel.org, Gitorious and GitHub. You might want to contact admin of BitBucket (Mercurial) and Launchpad (Bazaar), and some commercial hosting sites, to add announcement about survey. * Blogs related to DVCS or version control in general such as http://www.versioncontrolblog.com/ and/or blogs by maintainers, creators, or people important to given DVCS like Junio C. Hamano or Linus Torvalds for Git, or Mark Shuttleworth for Bazaar (via Ubuntu), or Bram Cohen for Codeville; or perhaps generic programmers blogs such as Eric Sink blog or Coding Horror, or Joel On Software. * You might also want to either announce from time to time on DVCS related IRC channels (mainly on FreeNode) such as #revctrl, #git, #bazaar, #mercurial, #monotone, #github etc., or ask sysop to add announcement to channel topic (using some kind of URL shortening service, with menmonic short name) * Git User's Survey 2008 was also announced on Ohloh, open source software metric site. * You might also want to at least try to add announcement on news sites such as LWN.net or community sites such as Slashdot, Digg or Reddit; the latter might prove difficult... I hope that this would help. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html