On 7/27/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's been more than a year since last Git User's Survey. It would be > interesting to find what changed since then. Therefore the idea to > have another survey. Hi Jakub, sorry for the late answer, I've been away from my PC having fun on a beach for a few days. I'm now back home, I have my Menabrea beer with me so I can try to provide some useful comments :-) > First there is a question about the form of survey. Should we use web > based survey, as the survey before (http://www.survey.net.nz), sending > emails with link to this survey, or perhaps do email based survey, > with email Reply-To: address put for this survey alone? I vote for the survey.net.nz approach. I think that from a user prospective that's the right thing to do, we can have "multiple choice questions" and avoid some of the more common mistakes. > Second, what questions should be put in the survey, and in the case of > single choice and ultiple choice questions what possible answers > should be? Below are slightly extended questions from the last > survey. Please comment on it. > > Third, where to send survey to? I was thinking about git mailing list, > LKML, and mailing list for git projects found on GitProjects page on > GIT wiki. Do you want to add some address? Or should info about GIT > User's Survey 2007 be sent also to one of on-line magazines like > LinuxToday, or asked to put on some blog? I think that one of the mistakes I did when I sent out the first survey was to not contact any magazines and blog. > References: > http://marc.info/?l=git&m=115116592330648&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=git&m=115364303813936&w=2 > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey > > ---- > About you > > 1. What country are you in? I know that lot of people will disagree with me but from a pure statistical prospective I'd like to add a couple of questions about gender and age. I understand very well that these questions will not be useful for making git any better but it will be interesting to have a better picture abut the git customer base. > 2. What is your preferred non-programming language? > 3. Which programming languages you are proficient with? > (zero or more: multiple choice) > - C, shell, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk > > Getting started with GIT > > 1. How did you hear about GIT? > 2. Did you find GIT easy to learn? > - very easy/easy/reasonably/hard/very hard > 3. What helped you most in learning to use it? > 4. What did you find hardest? > 5. When did you start using git? From which version? > > How you use GIT > > 1. Do you use GIT for work, unpaid projects, or both? > work/unpaid projects/work > 2. How do you obtain GIT? Source tarball, binary package, or > pull the main repository? > - binary package/source tarball/pull from main repository > 3. What hardware platforms do you use GIT on? > * examples: i386, x86_64, ARM, PowerPC, Alpha, g5, ... > 4. What OS (please include the version) do you use GIT on? > * examples: Linux, MS Windows (Cygwin/MinGW/gitbox), > IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, ... > (please give kernel version and distribution for Linux) > 5. How many people do you collaborate with using GIT? > 6. How big are the repositories that you work on? (e.g. how many > files, how much disk space, how deep is the history?) > * number of files in repository: "git ls-tree -r HEAD | wc -l" > * pack size of freshly cloned fully packed repository > * number of commits in straight line, number of commits in branch > ("git rev-list --first-parent HEAD | wc -l", > "git rev-list HEAD | wc -l") > 7. How many different projects do you manage using GIT? > 8. Which porcelains do you use? > (zero or more: multiple choice) > - core-git, cogito, StGIT, pg, guilt, other git-gui ? > 9. Which git GUI do you use > (zero or more: multiple choice) > - gitk, git-gui, qgit, gitview, giggle, other > 10. Which git web interface do you use for your projects? > - gitweb/cgit/wit (Ruby)/git-php/other > 11. How do you publish/propagate your changes? > (zero or more: multiple choice) > - push, pull request, format-patch + email, bundle, other > 12. Does git.git repository include code produced by you? > - yes/no > > Internationalization > 1. Is translating GIT required for wider adoption? > - yes/no/somewhat > 2. What do you need translated? > (zero or more: multiple choice) > - GUI (git-gui, gitk, qgit, ...), git-core messages, > manpages, other documentation > 3. For what language do you need translation for? > > What you think of GIT > > 1. Overall, how happy are you with GIT? > - unhappy/not so happy/happy/very happy/completely extatic > 2. How does GIT compare to other SCM tools you have used? > - worse/equal (or comparable)/better > 3. What do you like about using GIT? > 4. What would you most like to see improved about GIT? > (features, bugs, plugins, documentation, ...) > 5. If you want to see GIT more widely used, what do you > think we could do to make this happen? > > Documentation > > 1. Do you use the GIT wiki? > - yes/no > 2. Do you find GIT wiki useful? > - yes/no/somewhat > 3. Do you contribute to GIT wiki? > - yes/no/only corrections or spam removal > 4. Do you find GIT's online help (homepage, documentation) useful? > - yes/no/somewhat > 5. Do you find help distributed with GIT useful > (manpages, manual, tutorial, HOWTO, release notes)? > - yes/no/somewhat > 6. Do you contribute to GIT documentation? > - yes/no > 7. What is your favourite user documentation for any software > projects or products you have used? > 8. What could be improved on the GIT homepage? > > Getting help, staying in touch > > 1. Have you tried to get GIT help from other people? > - yes/no > 2. If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly > and to your liking? > - yes/no > 3. Do you subscribe to the mailing list? > - yes/no > 4. Do you read the mailing list? What method do you use? > - subscribed/news interface/RSS interface/archives/ > /post + reply-to request/digests/I don't read it > 5. If yes, do you find it useful? > - yes/no (optional) > 6. Do you find traffic levels on GIT mailing list OK. > - yes/no? (optional) > 7. Do you use the IRC channel (#git on irc.freenode.net)? > - yes/no > 8. If yes, do you find IRC channel useful? > - yes/no (optional) > > Open forum > > 1. What other comments or suggestions do you have that are not > covered by the questions above? How about adding a question about whether the user migrated from a different SCM? If so, from which SCM and why? Regards, -- Paolo - 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
