Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:57:06 +0200 | | From | "Sverre Rabbelier" <> | | Subject | Re: Reporting bugs and bisection |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > > > Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve > > > quality. It's a positive thing. > > > > Sorry, but I have to disagree. Negative finger-pointing is never a good thing. > > Correct, but let's be careful here. The original suggestion was, > effectively, to get better metrics on the quality of contributions. > Those metrics *could* be used for finger pointing, or (my preference) > they could be used to direct and allocate our scarce resources: code > reviews and mentoring.
Exactly!
> There's no way to know what the metrics will tell us until we have > them. Arguing against metrics because they *may* be used to point > fingers at people is a silly argument; anything can be subverted to do > that.
Thank you, that should have been said before, you worded it perfectly.
> Let's get some measurements and see what they say. In the meantime, > try to believe that they could be put to good purposes, such as > identifying code areas that are tricky for contributors to get right > (independent of contributor), or contributors that could benefit from > code reviews, etc.
This especially is an area that I plan to focus on and should be very reliable when finished. As can be read in my application, I plan to look at how often a piece of code is changed, in what timespan and by how many different authors.
Thanks for the reply!
Cheers,
Sverre
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