From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: POLL: the 40 variables project Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:36:58 +0100 Message-ID: <33B71D45-EFBF-4ED3-91BF-7F921F90E336@uva.nl> References: <3CA13AF2-AFF7-49D1-97B6-7AF5AF6C1301@uva.nl> <7ACEEBD0-B96A-4181-A729-2E226E8935D4@uva.nl> <45E50DB7-E2E5-4DBB-AD44-3CC650ADD1C1@uva.nl> <607CE65C-55E5-4678-B6CC-65505857EC54@uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTwAq-00015N-Pb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:37:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTwAp-00014f-9n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:37:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43097 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTwAp-00014b-5t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:37:03 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:14165) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTwAo-0004sW-JB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:37:03 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id b39so3353ugd.17 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:37:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Manish Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list Hi everyone, I want to do more with these results, but for now I have put Manish' analysis and the raw data table on the web at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-customization-survey.php - Carsten On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Manish wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> > [snip: table formula help (22 lines)] >>> Anyhow, I will try and add additional results to the data if we >>> get more >>> responses (so far 2.) >> >> And please use the default values to clean out "configurations" to >> the >> default. > > Hello Carsten/List, > > Here are the final set of results after three days of polling. > > > 1. Total respondents : 36 > > 2. No. of customizations reported : 887 (minus faces) > > 3. Avg. no. of customizations/respondent : 24.6 > > 4. No. of unique variables customized : 260 (give or take a few to > account for faces etc.) > > 5. Percentge of variables customized : ~ 69% (when total 377) > > 6. Percentage of variables customized by > at least more than one person : ~ 36% (135/377) > > > Following table lists those variables (total 78) that have been > customized to non-default values by at least three users (threshold > decided to limit the size of the table.) > > |---------------------------------------+-----------------------| > | | No. of times reported | > | Variable | *not* same as default | > |---------------------------------------+-----------------------| > | org-log-done | 22 | > | org-todo-keywords | 22 | > | org-agenda-files | 21 | > | org-agenda-start-on-weekday | 19 | > | org-hide-leading-stars | 19 | > | org-remember-templates | 19 | > | org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done | 18 | > | org-agenda-include-diary | 17 | > | org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-done | 16 | > | org-use-fast-todo-selection | 16 | > | org-agenda-custom-commands | 15 | > | org-default-notes-file | 15 | > | org-special-ctrl-a/e | 14 | > | org-agenda-sorting-strategy | 13 | > | org-fast-tag-selection-single-key | 12 | > | auto-mode-alist | 11 | > | org-agenda-window-setup | 11 | > | org-stuck-projects | 11 | > | org-mode-hook | 10 | > | org-refile-targets | 10 | > | org-completion-use-ido | 9 | > | org-directory | 9 | > | org-return-follows-link | 9 | > | org-blank-before-new-entry | 8 | > | org-columns-default-format | 8 | > | org-enforce-todo-dependencies | 8 | > | org-tag-alist | 8 | > | org-reverse-note-order | 7 | > | org-drawers | 7 | > | org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments | 7 | > | org-publish-project-alist | 7 | > | org-special-ctrl-k | 7 | > | org-tags-column | 7 | > | org-export-html-style | 6 | > | org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled | 6 | > | org-modules | 6 | > | org-refile-use-outline-path | 6 | > | org-deadline-warning-days | 5 | > | org-startup-folded | 5 | > | org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date | 5 | > | org-archive-location | 5 | > | org-clock-persist | 5 | > | org-export-latex-classes | 5 | > | org-global-properties | 5 | > | org-id-method | 5 | > | org-odd-levels-only | 5 | > | org-agenda-ndays | 4 | > | org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit | 4 | > | org-agenda-skip-timestamp-if-done | 4 | > | org-agenda-tags-column | 4 | > | org-agenda-time-grid | 4 | > | org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines | 4 | > | org-archive-save-context-info | 4 | > | org-clock-in-resume | 4 | > | org-clock-in-switch-to-state | 4 | > | org-default-priority | 4 | > | org-link-abbrev-alist | 4 | > | org-lowest-priority | 4 | > | org-remember-insinuate | 4 | > | org-time-stamp-rounding-minutes | 4 | > | org-todo-keyword-faces | 4 | > | org-todo-state-tags-triggers | 4 | > | org-goto-interface | 3 | > | org-use-tag-inheritance | 3 | > | org-agenda-exporter-settings | 3 | > | org-agenda-prefix-format | 3 | > | org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files | 3 | > | org-clock-history-length | 3 | > | org-clock-out-remove-zero-time-clocks | 3 | > | org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file | 3 | > | org-email-link-description-format | 3 | > | org-export-mark-todo-in-toc | 3 | > | org-fontify-done-headline | 3 | > | org-icalendar-store-UID | 3 | > | org-link-frame-setup | 3 | > | org-remember-default-headline | 3 | > | org-time-stamp-custom-formats | 3 | > | org-use-fast-tag-selection | 3 | > |---------------------------------------+-----------------------| > > Finally, the top tweaker ranking has changed. :) > > |-----+-----------------------+------------------| > | | *Respondent* | *Customizations* | > |-----+-----------------------+------------------| > | 1. | Rainer Stengele | 66 | > | 2. | Fredrich Fredrichs | 64 | > | 3. | Bernt Hansen | 60 | > | 4. | Sebastian Rose | 52 | > | 5. | Matthew Lundin | 52 | > | 6. | James TD Smith | 47 | > | 7. | Carsten Domink | 44 | > | 8. | John Wiegley | 39 | > | 9. | Ulf Stegeman | 38 | > | 10. | Austin Frank | 38 | > | 11. | Manuel Hermengildo | 32 | > | 12. | Chris Leyon | 29 | > | 13. | Ross Patterson | 26 | > | 14. | Paul Mead | 26 | > | 15. | Dan Griswold | 26 | > | 16. | Stephan Schmitt | 25 | > | 17. | William Henney | 24 | > | 18. | Peter Jones | 21 | > | 19. | Martin Stemplinger | 20 | > | 20. | Michael Ekstrand | 20 | > | 21. | Eric Schulte | 16 | > | 22. | Cameron Horsburgh | 15 | > | 23. | Christian Egli | 14 | > | 24. | Eric S. Fraga | 13 | > | 25. | Tassilo Horn | 11 | > | 26. | Steven Harris | 11 | > | 27. | Oliver Charles | 10 | > | 28. | Giovani Ridolfi | 9 | > | 29. | Hsui-Kheurn Tang | 8 | > | 30. | Dan Davison | 8 | > | 31. | Scott Randby | 6 | > | 32. | Sivaraman Neelakantan | 6 | > | 33. | Don Womick | 4 | > | 34. | Mikael Fornius | 3 | > | 35. | Shaun Johnson | 2 | > | 36. | Scot Becker | 2 | > |-----+-----------------------+------------------| > > > I am attaching the latest raw data in case anyone wants to play with > it to extract some more nuggets of insights or see what non-default > values were used etc. > > Dan, thank you for the R code snippets. I could use some of it and > rest frustrated me (due to my miniscule R knowledge.. so far.) So I > did some of it in Excel. > > Finally, thanks to everyone who responded (conspicuously missing were > Charles Cave, Russell Adams, Adam Spiers, Bastien, Leo, Eddward > DeVilla... .) It has been an awesome thread so far, a gold mine of > ideas and (for me) a chance to peek into the ways of working of people > way more prodcutive than I. > > Thank you all > -- > Manish > > PS: Carsten has already started another thread to discuss changing the > defaults. >