[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

[jnoller at gmail.com]

On Feb 25, 2009 6:46pm, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:


> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au>  
> wrote:

> > There's an option missing in that survey:

> >

> > [ ] I see a need to switch to a DVCS at all.




> To be fair, the survey isn't asking about a switch, just how they compare

> against svn.



> But I must admin that seems a little strange; while I just answered that I

> believe hg and bzr are better than svn (I abstained re git), that  
> *doesn't*

> necessarily imply I would vote that they should replace svn for Python - I

> might, but I might not - that is a much harder question than the one

> presented.

> 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.



> 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.



> 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.



> -Brett



Yeah, but the "Anything but subversion" option isn't there!

jesse
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