Tools survey

[John D. Mitchell]

On Thursday 2008.07.10, at 07:01 , Alpár Jüttner wrote:
[...]
>
> Be careful that it means 810 votes in total, (174 votes for  
> Mercurial).
> More importantly, nothing ensures that the results are representative.
> Also many people (must) use different tools for different projects.  
> (As
> I do, for example.)
>
> IMHO, it is just a waste of time voting or discussing the results.
> (Though, order to please you, I had my voice and voted to mercurial).

Yes, these kinds of surveys have all sorts of bias problems.

The most crucial, IMHO, is the fact that it doesn't ask the  
respondents to note which of the tools they have actually used.  So  
it's impossible to make any distinction between SVN getting a lot of  
votes because it's been chosen by people who have used most/all of  
them vs. people who picked it because that's just what they use  
already (and haven't really used anything else).

Take care,
John