On Tue, 24 July 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Dnia środa 23. lipca 2008 16:54, Robin Rosenberg napisał >>> 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. Well, truth to be told it is both. We try here to kill two birds with one stone: both to have 'programming background' of Git users, and get to know which parts of code can have many contributors, and which could have troubles attracting contributors because of the language they are written in (which is visible in the choice of programming languages in 2007 survey). If we want to provide larger number of programming languages to chose from (with "other" as fallback), we could take for example top 10 from the TIOBE index, or similar sites: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html (for July 2008) http://lui.arbingersys.com/index.html (Language Usage Indicators, Jul 10, 2008) This would bring 'Visual Basic', and perhaps 'Assembly' and 'Lisp' to the list of choices. >> 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. You can manage documents and like (especially written in some formatting language), you can manage web pages, you can also use git to only _track_ some projects even if you are not a programmer yourself. See for example http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2008/06/29/git-bibs/ http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/86 http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=33830 http://www.secomputing.co.uk/2008/06/engineering-log-book.html -- 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
