Sean Dague wrote:
I think the concern is the ascribed motive for why people are putting these up. That's fine to feel that people are stat padding (and that too many things are driven off metrics). But, honestly, that's only important if we make it important. Contributor stats are always going to be pretty much junk stats. They are counting things to be the same which are wildly variable in meaning (number of patches, number of Lines of Code).
If this is a real thing (which I don't know if it is, but I could believe that it is) due to management or other connecting those stats to involvement (and likely at some point $$) why don't we just turn off http://stackalytics.com/ or make it require a launchpad login (make it a little harder to access) or put a big warning banner on it that says these stats are not-representative of much of anything...
The hard part is it's not us as a community deciding 'important if we make it important' because such motives are not directly associated to contributors but instead may or may not be connected to management of said contributor (and management of the contributors that are paid to work on openstack has always been in the background somewhere, like a ghost...).
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