Subject: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - trial run

From: Johan Herland <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:32:43 +0200

On Thursday 25 June 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Current version of survey has 30 questions, as compared to
> 60 questions last year; the number of free-form essay questions
> were also greatly reduced.

Good. :)

> The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at
> the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com)
>
>   http://www.survs.com/survey?id=2PIMZGU0&channel=TFN2Y52K7Y
>
> Please tell me what you think about questions and about selection
> of possible answers in single choice/multiple choice questions.

There seems to be some unnecessary overlap among questions 11, 16/17 and 18. 
Examples: I found myself ticking off equivalent options like:
- 11/gitk, 17/gitk and 18/"gitk or other history viewer"
- 17/"git gui" and 18/"git-gui or other commit tool"
- 14/"via git-bundle", 15/"git bundle", 16/"git bundle" and 18/"git bundle"
- 11/StGIT/Guilt/TopGit and 18/"path management interface"
- 17/"git reflog" and 18/reflog
- 17/"git stash" and 18/stash
- 16/"git difftool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool"
- 16/"git mergetool" and 18/"mergetool and/or difftool"
- 17/"git rebase -i" and 18/"interactive rebase"
- 16/"git add -i" and 18/"interactive commit/..."
- 16/"git filter-branch", 18/"git-filter-branch or cg-admin-rewritehist" and 
18/"git-filter-branch or equivalent"
- 11/"editor/IDE VC integration" and 18/"integration with IDE/editor"

Some of this overlap is probably unavoidable, but I think some of it 
(especially between 16/17 and 18) can be eliminated without compromising the 
survey. Maybe we can integrate the non-overlapping parts of 18 into the 
other questions, thereby further decreasing the number of questions?

BTW, 17 is just a continuation of 16, AFAICS. Is it possible to just repeat 
the column headers (to break up the table length) and still keep it as one 
question?

Otherwise, I like the survey very much.

> How long does it take to fill survey?

~ 5-7 minutes

Thanks for the hard work you put into this. It is appreciated.

Have fun! :)

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <[email-masked]>
www.herland.net