Re: GNOME DVCS Survey

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Oki doki.  Survey's been up for twelve hours and some 360 out of 1080 invited
people have already filled in.  The stats have been quite revealing I should
say.  If anyone wants to help extract useful information out of it, drop me a
line and I'll create an account for you.  I think at the end I'll just remove
the SVN login field (thinking about it now, should not have included it in the
first place...) and extract it and make it public.

behdad


Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Go!
> 
> 2008/12/8 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>:
>> So, with Frederic and I reaching kind of an agreement over that issue, can I
>> assume that the others are Ok with the survey as is?
>>
>> I'll go getting hold of the voter info and preparing for lunch tonight or
>> tomorrow.  I'm planning to leave it open for two weeks.
>>
>> behdad
>>
>> Frederic Peters wrote:
>>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>> The thing is I wouldn't want to go with dvcs mirror and find people
>>>>>>> complaining "oh no it is no true bzr/git/hg".  This is why I believe
>>>>>>> the survey should also be (a little bit) about the possible solutions.
>>>>>> I don't think any of us want to end up with the mirror thing.  If for any we
>>>>>> end up having that choice considered, we can do another survey.
>>>>> And I think your personal opinion of what is the common opinion
>>>>> shouldn't interfer with the choice of questions :)
>>>> Selective quoting...  I also said this survey is about an individual's
>>>> preference of DVCS systems, not about various implementation strategies we
>>>> *may* end up pursuing.  I want to keep it short and focused.
>>> Sorry for the selective quoting, it was not intended to misrepresent
>>> your views.
>>>
>>> I do think the survey result will be interpreted as a decision "we
>>> must switch to $dvcs", "we will keep svn".  Even if "The survey
>>> results will be informational" is mentioned.  At least I kind of fear
>>> that.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What is this question supposed to tell us?  What data are you gathering and
>>>> how does it affect our decision process?  For data gathered by the above
>>> It would tell us about a possible implementation strategy we may
>>> choose afterwards.  But as you say, limesurvey is now installed and
>>> can be reused later.
>>>
>>>
>>>> question to be meaningful we should add another question or two asking about
>>>> user's familiarity and usage of such $dvcs mirror.  How do you make decisions
>>>> based on it?  git-svn is crap right now.  If we decide to deploy it we need to
>>>> fix it.  How do you ask people if they would be fine using a yet-to-be-fixed tool?
>>> Note git mirror is not about straight git-svn but
>>> http://git-mirror.gnome.org/git/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Frederic
>>>
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