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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:57:03 +0000 |
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> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 1 March 2013 16:47, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> |
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>> > wrote: |
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>> >> We have been analysed! |
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>> >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7191 |
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>> >> Regards, |
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>> >> jer |
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>> >> |
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>> > |
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>> > As a relative newbie, I have to ask: Who is this "central |
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>> > contributor" that the paper refers to? |
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>> Maybe Daniel Robbins? I haven't read it yet though. |
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> No, the "central contributor" was what Gentoo would term a "bug |
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> wrangler", and the performance metrics given are related to how bugs are |
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> handled. The paper shows that there is a correlation between running |
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> various graph metrics on bugzilla, and who is doing the bug wrangling. |
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> It's not looking at commits, changes, delivered features or anything |
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> like that. |
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That's the gist I got as well, and that answers my question. Thanks. |
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