On Thu, 24 July 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:49:41PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:25:03AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 02. What is your preferred non-programming language?
>>>> (or) What is the language you want computer communicate with you?
>>>
>>> IMHO, the later wording of the question is much better.
>>
>> First just satisfies demographic curiosity. Second is more question
>> about internationalization (i18n).
>
> I think demographic is largely covered by the first question about
> country. As to i18n, I don't think it is fully covered just by the
> question about one's language preference to communicate with computer
> (which is probably is more correctly to call localization). Possible
> questions related to i18n are:
> - Do you use file names with non-ASCII characters?
> - Do you use text files with non-ASCII characters?
> - Do you (or members of your team) use computers with different
> character sets and have to deal with non-ASCII characters?
>
> But I guess we do not want to have so many questions. So, maybe
> something simple instead:
> - Are you satisfied with support for non-ASCII characters in Git?
But only if it is free-form question:
xx. Are you satisfied with support for non-ASCII characters in Git?
Yes or No? If no, please explain what you had problems with.
(free form, or rather Yes/No + explanation for No)
If we decide to add more questions about translating Git, I think
we should also add the following:
xx. Which parts of Git would you like/do you need translated?
(zero or more: multiple choice)
- git-gui, gitk, manpages, user's manual, commands messages
>> Should "What version do you use now?" be multiple choice (using git
>> on more than one machine / operating system)?
>
> I think we already have another question about what OS one uses.
> So I believe it should be only version number here.
One can use Git on many different machines (for example at work, and
at home), or on multi-boot machine (with more than one operating
system). Each of those machines, and/or each of those operating
systems can use different version of Git. So that is why I think
this should be multiple choice, even if I guess that most people
would select only one answer.
>> What should be possible
>> choices for "How long do you use git?"? Perhaps.
>>
>> 10. How long do you use git?
>> (single choice)
>> - never/few days/few weeks/month/few months/year/few years/
>> from beginning/I wrote it(*)
>> + (*) just kidding ;-)
>
> I would rather use numbers like that:
>
> never
> less than month
> 1-3 months
> 3-6 months
> 6-12 months
> 1-2 year
> more than 2 years
> from the beginning
I think it is even better; I'm not sure if we shouldn't split sub-month
region, for example to provide for people who has heard of git for
first time, but played with it a little bit.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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