On Apr 25, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 06:00 PM, David E. Jones wrote: >> An FYI for all committers: create an account on GitHub (if you don't already >> have one) and add your @apache.org email address to it, and within a few >> hours you'll show up in the contributor graphs. I tried this and am now >> showing up there: >> >> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz/graphs/contributors >> >> If nothing else it's entertaining, I had no idea that I had this volume of >> commits since OFBiz joined the ASF (750k lines added, 135k lines removed; >> note that changes to lines show up in both counts). > > Come on, everyone. It's a competition! See if you can beat Jacopo! :-) Frankly speaking... I hates these and similar metrics (e.g. number of posts in the mailing list per author, number of commits per author etc...) because they don't say anything about the quality of the contribution but just on the amount of noise produced; and I am worried that they may induce some to post more and more, commit more and more to stay up in the ranking and this may be detrimental to the quality of the contribution. > > Useless metrics are fun sometimes. Number of commits, number of lines > added/removed, don't really mean anything. I've seen stupid code that had > the same 30 lines cut and pasted 20 times, instead of making a helper method, > and of course a single line per commit can also inflate numbers. Right, or several commits then reverted :-) Jacopo
