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| Answer Choices | Percentage | No. Responses |
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| I mainly create, test and commit my own patches | 38% | 9 |
| I mainly watch for patches from others to test and commit | 25% | 6 |
| I'm not doing many commits at the moment | 13% | 3 |
| I mainly test and provide feedback on patches | 4% | 1 |
| None of the above | 21% | 5 |
Comments :
- The objective of this question was to find out what was the main source of a Committer's activity.
- It was phrased to cater for inactive Committers, as well as those who provided feedback and advice instead of
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- doing regular commits
Conclusions :
- The majority of committers focus on creating and applying their own patches which is something I would have expected.
- It was very interesting to see that there is a group of committers that generally watch out for patches that contributors have uploaded and focus on testing and committing them.
- There were 5 committers that did not fit any of the answer categories whichi is significant. I think a future survey should try and capture this missing categories (or categories)
Question 6: Do you generally contribute to areas that are relevant to your work?
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