From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC] Questions for "Git User's Survey 2011" Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:17:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <201107252233.02088.jnareb@gmail.com> <201109031738.11678.jnareb@gmail.com> <201109141939.14070.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Felipe Contreras , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jakub =?utf-8?Q?Nar=C4=99bski?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 08:18:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGOT4-0000IC-0w for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:18:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863Ab2IYGRw convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:17:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:39236 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752827Ab2IYGRv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:17:51 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q8P6CAUl001453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:12:12 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32] helo=anie) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TGOSK-0006MN-3k; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:17:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: ("Jakub \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Nar\=C4\=99bski\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:43:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:12:14 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q8P6CAUl001453 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1349158335.75906@wbC+Qq2uCPNxnpzK+Y2G7w Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Nar=C4=99bski writes: > Second, the situation is more complicated: one can be actively involv= ed > in 1 distributed project with 200+ contributors via Gerrit, often con= tribute > to 1 centralized project with 15-25 contributors, and rarely interact= with > distributed project using "blessed" repository workflow where number > of contributors range from few to few hundred. We're doing a user survey, so if a project has 200 contributors, it wil= l statistically have 10 times more survey participants than a 20 contributors project. Sure, statistics don't always work, but if we don't trust statistics, we shouldn't do a survey. > Third, no other in matrix form. Well, forcing the user to chose between existing options is not necessarily bad IMHO. It at least avoids free-form answers like "I'm doing almost exactly option b) but I don't call it this way so I didn't tick b)". --=20 Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/