Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:14:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out
> >> as an answer, IMO.
>
> > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any
> > activity logs.
>
> Don't know. I'm just guessing based on the approximate number of posters
> to hackers and patches. I guess it can't hurt to add it, but I still
> think it will be an outlier. Personally, I prefer to use the tarballs
> so that I can help spot any bugs that may have been introduced in the
> packaging process.

So that's one data point. Shouldn't conclusions about the population
in general be based on survey results instead of on a priori assumptions?
Otherwise what's the point of the survey?

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Michael Fuhr