[webkit-dev] UPDATED Re: Version control survey

[Maciej Stachowiak]

It's probably only worth it if you think such instrumentation would show significantly different results.

Regards,
Maciej

On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:

> 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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