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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:30:22
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8guWZXY-Cs50b+ZUDrznqBo3chM9uY=y00oOPsRfAxkyA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 1 March 2013 17:00, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:57:03 +0000
3 > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On 1 March 2013 16:47, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
5 >> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
6 >> > wrote:
7 >> >> We have been analysed!
8 >> >>
9 >> >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7191
10 >> >>
11 >> >>
12 >> >> Regards,
13 >> >> jer
14 >> >>
15 >> >
16 >> > As a relative newbie, I have to ask: Who is this "central
17 >> > contributor" that the paper refers to?
18 >> >
19 >>
20 >> Maybe Daniel Robbins? I haven't read it yet though.
21 >
22 > No, the "central contributor" was what Gentoo would term a "bug
23 > wrangler", and the performance metrics given are related to how bugs are
24 > handled. The paper shows that there is a correlation between running
25 > various graph metrics on bugzilla, and who is doing the bug wrangling.
26 > It's not looking at commits, changes, delivered features or anything
27 > like that.
28 >
29 > --
30 > Ciaran McCreesh
31
32 Ah thanks. I need to read the paper as well.
33
34 --
35 Regards,
36 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
37 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang