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On 2010.04.03 15:59, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: |
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> > First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling |
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> anything |
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> is |
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> > to measure it. |
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> So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think |
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> of a useful algorithm which helps to identify understaffed or |
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> orphaned areas. |
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> Sure, one might take a look at the number of packages compared with |
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> open |
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> bugs for example - but in the end that still won't give you some |
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> useful |
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> metrics. |
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It doesn't much matter what we measure as long as it related to what we |
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want to control and that we do not change the metric. That way the |
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metrics remain useful. |
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Open bugs per package and mean age of bugs per package come to mind. |
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Such per package metrics can be aggregated per herd, per project, the |
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whole of Gentoo or whatever. |
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A reducing mean age of bugs and open bugs shows we are moving in the |
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right direction. |
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I'm sure many other metrics are possible. |
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> If someone has a feeling somewhere helping hands are missing or an |
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> area |
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> is orphaned - that's the best "metrics" we can get. |
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Feelings? |
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The problem with feelings is that they keep changing |
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Let me remind you of this Carl Sagan quote ... |
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I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial |
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intelligence?" I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of |
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places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on. And then I |
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say it would be astonishing to me if there weren't extraterrestrial |
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intelligence, but of course there is as yet no compelling evidence for |
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it. And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do you really think?" I say, "I |
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just told you what I really think." "Yeah, but what's your gut |
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feeling?" But I try not to think with my gut. Really, it's okay to |
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reserve judgment until the evidence is in. - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of |
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Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 |
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The important bit being "it's okay to reserve judgment until the |
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evidence is in". |
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> - Tobias |
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> -- |
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> Praxisbuch Nagios |
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> http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pbnagiosger/ |
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> https://www.xing.com/profile/Tobias_Scherbaum |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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