[webkit-dev] UPDATED Re: Version control survey

[Dirk Pranke]

I have a vague recollection that we've instrumented the chromium tools
so that we can tell who is using git vs. svn and (I think) from which
platforms. If there's interest, I can dig up what we did and see if we
can use the same technique on our tools.

-- Dirk

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I made a bad choice of survey site. They want to charge me to see more than
> 100 responses or to export the data, but they won't take my money. Sadness.
> Please try this survey instead, it will run through the 17th.
>
> http://kwiksurveys.com?s=LODHNK_f6f04dad
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately SurveyMonkey sucks and I can't give everyone access to live
>> responses without paying them money. Current results:
>>
>> - 97 people have answered
>> - About 67% use Git only (this has been consistent throughout the survey)
>> - Aabout 20% use Subversion only
>> - About 13% use Git and Subversion
>> - No one checked "Other"
>>
>> As far as contribution levels of the responders:
>>
>> - 37% are WebKit reviewers
>> - 25% are WebKit committers
>> - 25% are WebKit contributors (but presumably not committers or reviewers
>> yet)
>> - 13% are not WebKit contributors
>
>
> Can we see the breakdown of git/svn users among reviewers & committers?
>
> I'm not certain if it's really useful to consider votes casted by
> non-contributors here since we're presumably not trying to decide which
> version control system is more popular in general public.
>
>
> I would indeed like to get the contributor-only (and
> reviewer/committer-only) statistics, but I'm having trouble upgrading to the
> "pro" account that would enable this. I'll post the data once I have it.
>
> I do think it is somewhat interesting to find out what non-contributors who
> nontheless check out source are using to access the WebKit repository. The
> fact that so many people use Git says to me that our basic checkout
> instructions should include the relevant git instructions as an alternative.
> SVN instructions are on the main site at
> <http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html> but Git instructions are
> buried in the wiki.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
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