[Python-Dev] Survey on DVCS usage and experience (original) (raw)

Brian de Alwis brian.de.alwis at usask.ca
Fri May 29 09:13:34 CEST 2009

On 28-May-09, at 9:35 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:02:57PM -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:

With Python having recently chosen to switch to Mercurial, I hoped that any developers who've used a DVCS (and who are over 18 years old) might like to participate in our survey and share your Just curious. Why is this age restriction? You might miss out few key developers...

It's a restriction required to obtain approval from our research
ethics board -- people under 18 are considered to be minors in Canada
and thus require the consent of their guardian to participate. Trying
to obtain such permission for an anonymous survey is a bit difficult!
Although we could work around this guardian-consent issue in theory,
doing so would require jumping through several additional hoops in the
ethics process and would take significantly more time.

Brian.

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