Re: [ide-dev] Survey results

[Eric Moffatt <emoffatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point Lars...

Sven, when this search runs does it return values that are not explicitly *in* the .project file or does it always return a result for a given preference ? If not (i.e. the total of the setting values always == the total number of .project files) then is there any way to determine whether the value was explicit or not ?

What I'm trying to do is to reduce any 'default' bias by only scraping preferences that have been explicitly over-ridden. If we can do this then the results would be even more compelling since they'd represent those values that someone has found a real need to change from the default (or to explicitly enforce).

BTW, just for fun...;-) What do we get when we look at the values for 'show line numbers' ?

Back to testing,
Eric


Lars Vogel ---12/10/2013 04:39:32 AM---Hi Sven, IMHO most users don't touch defaults, this might be the reason why you find

From:	Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:	12/10/2013 04:39 AM
Subject:	Re: [ide-dev] Survey results
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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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