Oh, totally agree. It is useful as a rough measure, but completely ignores many other forms of contribution.
*shrug* On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:16, dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that > would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) > > Seriously: I doubt some code analysis or commit log analysis practices > especially if the goal would be to make an assertion about someones > "performance". IMHO that leaves a bad taste in an OSS environment and > is probably counter productive and it's probably a dead end in a > commercial environment if you want to "performance measure" people > that way. > > Cheers > Daniel > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:05, dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>... >>> Final note on commit log analysis - if that's a criterion how to >>> define an active ASF "participant" my most active times are certainly >>> pretty dated but of course I would know how to teak commit logs to >>> make me look more active if I'd ever like to go down that road ;) >> >> Dude. Reindent the codebase. That does *wonders* for the amount of >> code that you've "worked on" in a project. >> >> :-D :-D >> >> >> Cheers, >> -g >> >> ps. we have a couple points in the Apache Subversion history were that >> effectively happened. A couple developers now have a seemingly huge >> level of contribution over the entire codebase. hehehe.... >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
