Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:29:06 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND or not ATTEND] That's the question! |
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> A good start would be if you could convert your kernel statistics into > accounting the consolidation effects of contributions instead of > fostering the idiocy that corporates have started to measure themself > and the performance of their employees (I'm not kidding, it's the sad > reality) with line and commit count statistics.
I would dearly love to come up with a way to measure "real work" in some fashion; I've just not, yet, figured out how to do that. I do fear that the simple numbers we're able to generate end up creating the wrong kinds of incentives.
Any thoughts on how to measure "consolidation effects"? I toss out numbers on code removal sometimes, but that turns out to not be a whole lot more useful than anything else on its own.
Thanks,
jon
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