From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755769AbYIAHKY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751055AbYIAHKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:10 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.229]:53090 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbYIAHKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:10:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=QYzVmo5wUOgSf7Ccw7On/NJKUXMh9Kcj/6oE2wPPYufBbY9hXyPigWcFfaSatJQSyo JFKEYhQTTTfwUwJX/8RRoRcihRTRu133s7Aks4HOnIcc+hNXhHSkSeSXFh3bULT6RIgd qw5eateJcY+MKEThfV8/4q8neZTKQ2XwomC44= Message-ID: <94a0d4530809010010yd46f2fevedac2682a330b8e2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:10:08 +0300 From: "Felipe Contreras" To: "Scott Chacon" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2008 Cc: "Jakub Narebski" , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200808312329.17312.jnareb@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Scott Chacon wrote: > This got on Hacker News and got a few comments on the length of the > survey. It did take me a pretty good amount of time to do. > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291560 > > I'm afraid the length and time required to fill it out will skew the > answers away from beginning type users, even though a lot of the > questions are aimed at them. > > It may be a good idea next year to do an adaptive survey, where there > are a few of the basic questions that could be answered in a few > minutes and if the user is a beginner it stops there, if they are more > advanced, it asks more advanced questions. I would be happy to help > set this up if there is interest, whoever is in charge of this. Well, the changes are saved even if you don't finish it, right? So you can fill it in different sessions. -- Felipe Contreras