[llvm-dev] [RFC] GitHub Survey - Please review

[Paweł Bylica via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:04 PM Renato Golin via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Bear in mind that the more questions we have, the harder it will be to
> interpret the results. If we have 20+ questions, it'll be impossible
> to understand anything.
>
> Also, the multiple choice questions are meant as a guide to understand
> "how many" people fall into one or another category, while the free
> text ones are meant to complement and give technical reasons for their
> answers.
>
> So, we should focus our multiple choice questions on divisive topics
> and let everything else to the free text-fields.
>
>
> On 19 August 2016 at 18:06, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
> > (1) Which project(s) do you contribute to?
> > (2) Which project(s) do you regularly use?
>
> I've added these two as one. I know they're slightly different, but so
> will be the the answer to the first question, which will work to
> disambiguate this one.
>

Wouldn't this question catch cases where someone uses prebuilt clang as
C/C++ compiler?


>
>
> > (3) How often do you bisect LLVM with one or more subproject?
>
> I understand that this is a contentious issue around the git move, but
> we should focus on the bigger picture, which is day to day usage as
> well as infrastructure.
>
>
> > (4) Do you use any of the llvm.org projects without LLVM or with
> out-of-sync
> > LLVM (i.e. trunk libunwind with an old LLVM)?
>
> This looks very specific to me, I'm trying to avoid side questions
> here and let people write up on the free text areas what their usage
> is.
>
>
> > (5) In which ways do you get LLVM sources from LLVM.org?
> >    (a) SVN
> >    (b) llvm.org Git mirrors
> >    (c) Git-SVN
> >    (d) GitHub Git mirrors
> >    (e) Other
>
> I don't think that previous usage is relevant. It may be relevant to
> the people doing it and to their responses on how hard it will be, but
> this should be encoded in the other questions. Some of that already
> is.
>
>
> > (6) Do you, or an organization you are affiliated with, maintain tooling
> or
> > infrastructure that interacts with llvm.org and is not public?
>
> This is a topic for the free-text fields.
>
>  cheers,
> --renato
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