Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - trial run

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2009/6/26 Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thursday 25 June 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Current version of survey has 30 questions, as compared to
>> 60 questions last year; the number of free-form essay questions
>> were also greatly reduced.
>
> Good. :)
>
>> The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at
>> the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com)
>>
>>   http://www.survs.com/survey?id=2PIMZGU0&channel=TFN2Y52K7Y
>>
>> Please tell me what you think about questions and about selection
>> of possible answers in single choice/multiple choice questions.
>
> There seems to be some unnecessary overlap among questions 11, 16/17 and 18.
> Examples: I found myself ticking off equivalent options like:
> - 11/gitk, 17/gitk and 18/"gitk or other history viewer"
> - 17/"git gui" and 18/"git-gui or other commit tool"
> - 14/"via git-bundle", 15/"git bundle", 16/"git bundle" and 18/"git bundle"
> - 11/StGIT/Guilt/TopGit and 18/"path management interface"
> - 17/"git reflog" and 18/reflog
> - 17/"git stash" and 18/stash
> - 16/"git difftool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool"
> - 16/"git mergetool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool"
> - 17/"git rebase -i" and 18/"interactive rebase"
> - 16/"git add -i" and 18/"interactive commit/..."
> - 16/"git filter-branch", 18/"git-filter-branch or cg-admin-rewritehist" and
> 18/"git-filter-branch or equivalent"
> - 11/"editor/IDE VC integration" and 18/"integration with IDE/editor"
>
> Some of this overlap is probably unavoidable, but I think some of it
> (especially between 16/17 and 18) can be eliminated without compromising the
> survey. Maybe we can integrate the non-overlapping parts of 18 into the
> other questions, thereby further decreasing the number of questions?
>
> BTW, 17 is just a continuation of 16, AFAICS. Is it possible to just repeat
> the column headers (to break up the table length) and still keep it as one
> question?

I agree, I found myself clicking on gitk multiple times (4?)

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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