Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #08; Fri, 25)

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Apr 26, 2014, 09:39 UTC
Message-ID: <27645ABF2E944872BB3F944B17E9490B@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <535b4c5a3c91c_3d63109d2f00@nysa.notmuch>

From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

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> My conclusion is based on logic and reason,

you forget  "And repeatable measurement / evidence" ....

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> are the bedstone of science.
> You can make sensible decisions based on that alone, and in fact 
> that's how
> most good decisions are made.
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> Felipe Contreras
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At the moment we are missing the repeatable measurements, which can't happened until the @{publish}, and others, have been released and used for a while[1], otherwise we [prematurely] are back to one size fits all solutions.

I suspect your solution may become the lead candidate for @{p}, but as they say, "making predictions is hard, especially about the future".

regards

Philip

[1] we don't have a good measurement technique for existing usage frequencies (as typed by real users in real life, weighted by user type, ...) either!