On 28-May-09, at 9:35 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@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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