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• The objective of this question was to get a measure of the commit activity for a Committer.
• Only one answer choice was allowed
• Note that this is not a concrete measure because a Committer could still be contributing by testing, providing feedback and responses as part of another patch or commit

Conclusions :

• It is important to note that the response to this question is not a truly concrete measure because a Committer could still be contributing by testing, providing feedback and responses as part of another patch or commit. I've tried to capture this distinction in Question 5.
• The majority of Committers are see themselves as not commiting often. This could be caused by the type of work being done (e.g a re-factoring task may take longer because of the additional testing and checking that needs to be done to ensure that nothing is broken due to the re-factor), also some patches that are being applied are older which means that they may need to be fixed before they can be committed
• The use of the 'None of the above' category shows that there was an answer choice missing so maybe this can be discovered in the discussions resulting from the survey.

Question 5: Which of the following best describes your commit activity?

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