Hi,
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> This is second revision (version) of proposed questions
> for Git User's Survey 2008.
Great!
> By the way, should the survey be divided in pages, or simply use
> headers to divide survey into sections?
Divided pages have a psychological impact, they don't look much and you
can say "Almost there!" on each page.
But headers and one-page surveys have a big advantage for users that pay
for Internet access per time unit: they can go offline, answer the
questions, and go online again to submit the survey.
So I've scrolled across your test survey on survs.com and I think it
should be kept on one page. Looks nice and manageable.
> Third, where to send survey to / where to publish information about the
> survey?
This question leads me to a question that could be put into the survey:
Where have you read about this survey? (optional)
[Free form]
> Fourth, how long should the survey last? When sending announcement we
> should say where notice about Git User's Survey 2008 should be taken
> down. Last year the survey was meant to take three weeks, but was up
> longer. I'm thinking about having it last a month, or a month and a
> half, starting from September 1.
And lasting until 2008-10-10? No, I do not really care.
So, some comments on the questions now:
> About you
>
> xx. What country are you in?
"What country do you live in?" perhaps?
> Getting started with GIT
>
> xx. How did you hear about Git?
There is a typo on survs.com (hear_d_).
Should this by the way be multiple choice?
I have heard about Git several times before I tried it.
I will only quote from survs.com now:
> told by friend (word of mouth)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ? :) I think this should be removed
> What other SCM did or do you use?
>[..]
> custom ( ) ( ) ( )
custom?
> 20. Which porcelains / interfaces / implementations do you use?
> [ ] core-git
Uh, this is ambiguous. Is this our git or some script on top of git?
In both cases, this should be clarified.
> 22. Which git web interface do you use for your projects/have installed?
> (Web interfaces used by git hosting sites do not count[*])
[...]
> (*) Unless of cours you are hosting some git hosting site
^^^^^^^^ ^
typo, but I'd rather do s/of cours // and s/$/./ :-)
> 26. How often do you use the following forms of git commands
> or extra git tools?
>
> Never | Rare | Often
| Not yet, but sounds cool ;-)
No no :-)
But I wonder if we could split the "Never" case into several cases with
reasons like:
- Do not know.
- Not yet needed.
- Other (did not understand; tried but did not work; ...)
But this will perhaps bloat the question even more, so we should keep
"Never", though I think the reasons could be interesting.
Could some "Comments" field for question 26 help?
Some other comment: I dislike that there is *one* "Reset" button for
such matrix questions. But I guess you cannot change that?
> 28. Which of the following features do or did you use?
I think many of the possible replies have been used in several other
questions before, e.g. in
- 21. (gitk, git gui),
- 24. (git bundle),
- 26/27. (git gui, gitk, git stash)
- ...
But this question still seems to makes sense for:
[ ] eol conversion (crlf)
[ ] gitattributes
[ ] reflog (ref@{23})
[ ] shallow clone
[ ] detaching HEAD <- I think several people could have used that without knowing
[ ] commit templates
[ ] integration with IDE/editor
[ ] non-default hooks
And btw:
> [ ] working with dirty tree <- Eh? Is this a feature?
Big thanks for your efforts,
Stephan
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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F
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