On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 16:13, <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 25, 2009 6:46pm, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:35, Mark Hammond mhamm...@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!
Yes it is; just vote that all three are better than the status quo. -Brett
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