On Feb 25, 2009 6:46pm, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond mhammond@skippinet.com.au> wrote:
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> > There's an option missing in that survey:
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> > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all.
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> To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare
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> But I must admin that seems a little strange; while I just answered that I
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> might, but I might not - that is a much harder question than the one
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> I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the survey. This is meant to gauge whether you think the DVCSs would be improvement over the status quo for us, which happens to be svn. I have changed the options to make it a comparison against the status quo and not svn specifically. If anyone wants to change their vote based on this clarification let me know and I will delete your initial answers.
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> So in MAL's case, you would say you think all the DVCS would be worse than the status quo as a way to vote that you don't want any change because the status quo is fine.
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> I am not going to delve any deeper into making a fancier survey because it just gets too convoluted in terms of how to present the questions, mining the data, dealing with bias and how people are just not built to rate things, etc.
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> -Brett
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Yeah, but the "Anything but subversion" option isn't there!
jesse