Re: [gentoo-project] Per-sender rate limiting our mailing lists

[Kent Fredric]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:41:42 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:

> Git shows really low stats. You cannot argue with facts.

Please stop using git as a measure of contribution. Its inaccurate at best.

I've had to hand test and triage dozens of bugs in the time it takes
to do one commit.

A lot of useful developer time is entirely invisible from Git, git is only
one viewport, and if you use it on its own, all you see is a distorted reality.

For instance, Arch testers *by far* have the highest commit numbers.

But I don't think it would be fair to read that as either an indication that they do /more/ work
than other developers, nor would I discredit that number as being entirely meaningless.

Just the *kind* of work they do necessitates they do more commits in the course
of that work than is otherwise normal.

But you could theoretically create a bot that pumps out commits, and you wouldn't treat
it as the glorious saviour developer.

In short: 

"git" 

Is not

"facts"