From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:57:06 GMT Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0804171235o49238b99u6cdbd3e5c8d6ebb7@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Ray Lee wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve > > > quality. It's a positive thing. > > > > Sorry, but I have to disagree. Negative finger-pointing is never a good thing. > > Correct, but let's be careful here. The original suggestion was, > effectively, to get better metrics on the quality of contributions. > Those metrics *could* be used for finger pointing, or (my preference) > they could be used to direct and allocate our scarce resources: code > reviews and mentoring. Exactly! > There's no way to know what the metrics will tell us until we have > them. Arguing against metrics because they *may* be used to point > fingers at people is a silly argument; anything can be subverted to do > that. Thank you, that should have been said before, you worded it perfectly. > Let's get some measurements and see what they say. In the meantime, > try to believe that they could be put to good purposes, such as > identifying code areas that are tricky for contributors to get right > (independent of contributor), or contributors that could benefit from > code reviews, etc. This especially is an area that I plan to focus on and should be very reliable when finished. As can be read in my application, I plan to look at how often a piece of code is changed, in what timespan and by how many different authors. Thanks for the reply! Cheers, Sverre