Git User's Survey 2016

Add announcement about Git User's Survey 2016 (with
links), with a bit of information about the history of this
survey, and Git user's survey in general.

In "Discussions" / "General".

Author: jnareb

rev_news/drafts/edition-19.md

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 Pranit passed the GSoC final evaluation.
 
+* **[Git User's Survey 2016](https://survs.com/survey/3cop1kt5eg)** is open till **20 October 2016**
+
+This year we will see the return of Git User's Survey (the last one was
+in 2012).  The goal of the survey is mainly to help to understand who is
+using Git, how and why.
+
+The results will be published to the Git wiki on the
+[GitSurvey2016](https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2016)
+page and discussed on the git mailing list.
+
+The survey would be open from **12 September** to **20 October 2016**.
+
+Beside getting information on how people use Git, what are their pain
+points, and what they want from Git (which might be different from what
+Git developers think it is), the [survey has also educational purpose,
+and includes a bit of advertisement](https://public-inbox.org/git/577E6F32.7020007%40gmail.com/)
+(brief note about this
+was in [#17](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/07/20/edition-17/)).
+For example question about tools used or one about features used teaches
+what is available (and which might had been not known).
+
+The questions were prepared with the help of Eric Wong and Andrew Adrill;
+the [[RFC] Proposed questions for "Git User's Survey 2016"](http://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/t/)
+thread and its subthreads was posted to solicite feedback.
+
+The survey was announced first on Git mailing list in
+[[ANNOUNCE] Git User's Survey 2016](http://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/) thread.
+At request to survey administrator, Jakub Narębski, (as response to the
+announcement email), one can get a separate channel in survey, with
+a separate survey URL, so that responses from a particular site
+or an organization could be split out.  Some companies already
+got their customized survey URLs.
+
+It should be noted that the result of the survey need to be taken with
+a bit of caution.  As Johannes Schindelin [reminded us](http://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.20.1609091503410.129229@virtualbox/),
+many professional developers that use Git would be too busy to take the
+survey.  Though hopefully the fact that you can fill it bit by bit
+(from the same computer), instead of having to fill it whole at once,
+would help.  Taking 30 minutes or more at once may be a problem,
+taking 10 times a 3 minutes at once may not be...
+
+There is also alternate version of the survey (alternate channel),
+which does not require cookies or JavaScript, and is fully anonymous,
+but it doesn't allow one to go back to response and edit it:
+https://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2016-anon
+
+***A bit of history:*** First "GIT user survey" was [announced](http://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/)
+and created in 2006; its results can be found at [GitSurvey2006](https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2006)
+page on Git Wiki.  So this year's survey is 10th anniversary
+of the first one.  Since 2008 the Git User's Survey was hosted on
+[Survs.com](https://survs.com) (then beta), thanks to generocity
+of the site, who provides with recurring premium annual plan.
+
 * Thank you Nicola and call for help!
 
 From the beginning in March 2015, Nicola Paolucci helped set up the
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 participate by just proofreading articles for example. Please contact
 us (see our emails at the bottom) if you are interested.
 
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