Bill Stoddard wrote: > > > Ben Hyde wrote: > > > > > > Thomas Eibner wrote: > > > > One volunteer has already come forward to help us gather data and we've > > > > compiled some statistics from this mailinglist showing how many posts > > > > each person has made since '95: > > > > > > > > Total Posts on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 87510 > > > > > > > > 1: ... > > > > > > This comes up from time to time. Somebody measures something; bugs > > > submitted, bugs fixes, lines written, commits made, documents written, > > > mails send, bylaws written, meetings attended, email threads started, > > > email threads ended, uses of the word 'bucket'... > > > > > > When it has come up before I have written variations of the following. > > > Try not to take this as an attack on the volunteer or the messenger > > > but ... > > > > > > I have very strong objections to nieve attempts to reduce the > > > contributions made by various individuals into 'objective' scores and > > > 'leader boards'. > > > > > > > I agree as well... such metrics are misleading at best and insulting and > > disruptive at worst. They are, to be blunt, dangerous to a > > collaborative environment and should be avoided if possible. > > -- > > Yes, I agree with Jim and Ben. If this is where the project is going, I am in favor >of > shutting it down right now. > > Bill
Such metrics are like counting the number of commits per committer in a projet: Funny but senseless! Ranking in the mail could be worse... Flames are (mostly) unless but are counting there. May be an interesting thing would be the ranking of answering to user questions in user list by committers.
