Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is partial summary of Git User's Survey 2008 [...] > > 03. With which programming languages are you proficient? > > Around 939 people answered this question. C is most popular with 59%; > Ruby and surprisingly a bit shell script programming have around second > place, with about 52-53%. More people are proficient with Python than > in Perl by about 1/3-1/4. Very few people (25 responses, around 3%) > feel proficient in Tcl/Tk, which means shallow pool of possible git-gui > and gitk contributors. Java is quite popular with around 42%, which > gives hope in continued JGit/EGit development. Yea, I liked seeing that result from our user base. 42% of the respondants know Java as a language. Not all of them may like programming in it for fun, but at least they claim they know it. :-) In the IDE part Eclipse received 13% (124 responses), which is almost close to Emacs (20%, 193 responses). Sadly only 2% (19 responses) use EGit. There's probably a lot of reasons for that. Possibly the "egit_sux" tag on repo.or.cz. Or our lack of a stable update site that users can install reasonably stable versions from. I think we've picked up 3 new contributors recently to the JGit/EGit project. Jonas Fonseca has started to use JGit inside of a NetBeans IDE plugin. Today he posted 2 patches, hopefully the first of many. Tor Arne Vestb� has been working on improving EGit's resource decorator. His fork on repo.or.cz is a few days old, but it has some really good potential in there. I'm looking forward to seeing the final series from his work. Charles O'Farrell joined us a few weeks back and added support for ref deletion, along with CLI for "jgit branch -d/-D". I think his time is rather limited, but the contributions are most appreciated. And of course Marek Zawirski is still contributing, but I think he's back in classes so his time is a little bit more constrained. Months back I think someone asked about including JGit in a commerically licensed product. Since its 3-clause BSD its quite possible to do. But I haven't seen anything materialize yet on that front. -- Shawn. -- 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
