Re: [ide-dev] Survey results

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven's queries only capture the users with
custom settings - the people who are *not* just using defaults. While it
is true this is only a fraction of all users, it still gives us some interesting
data about what settings Java devlopers find useful.

John




From:      
 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Sven,

IMHO most users don't touch defaults, this might be the
reason why you find the default setting so often on Github. 

Best regards, Lars


2013/12/10 Sven Efftinge <sven@xxxxxxxxxxx>

On Dec 9, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 12/09/2013 05:14 PM, Eric Moffatt wrote:

What happened to the idea of scraping github for data ? This seemed like a great idea to me when it first came up and may provide further insight into our users 'real' preferences.

Do you, as a user, commit your preferences to GitHub?
I may be wrong, but I don't believe GitHub repositories can give real hints about IDE configuration.

why don't you simply go and look?

For example, at github the option 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.autoboxing' is set 14,244 times to ignore [1] (today's default), and only 1,061 to warning [2] (the proposal) and 230 to error [3].

That's much better data than the survey, because it is more detailed, is based on real usage, and we have seven times as much 'votes'.
And surprisingly (or not) the result is very different.

[1] - https://github.com/search?q=org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.autoboxing%3Dignore&type=Code&ref=searchresults
[2] - https://github.com/search?q=org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.autoboxing%3Dwarning&type=Code&ref=searchresults
[3] - https://github.com/search?q=org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.autoboxing%3Derror&type=Code&ref=searchresults

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