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On 03/05/18 13:43, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 7:43 AM Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Does the council have the information it needs to monitor the health |
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>> of the project as a whole? |
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> And what would be done with this information? |
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> I'm sure the games metrics would be dismal, as would be the metrics for |
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> many categories. I suspect you already believe this as well, as do most of |
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> the Council members. So, what is the point of this exercise? |
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> It isn't like you need some kind of special access to analyze our |
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> bugs/commits. Everything is open. If somebody wants to post the metrics |
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> they should feel free to do so. Do we need the Council to vote on a |
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> resolution "encouraging members of the community to post metrics for |
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> projects they are interested in, including games, or create tools to |
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> automate this?" |
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> The problem isn't measuring activity within categories. The problem is |
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> doing anything about it. |
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> Also, I'd again like to point out that games != packages maintained by |
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> games@g.o, since it seems like we spent an inordinate amount of time trying |
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> to break this connection in previous years. You don't need permission from |
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> the games alias to maintain a game, just as you don't need permission from |
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> the python alias to maintain a package that uses python, or permission from |
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> the openrc alias to install an init.d script for a package. So, if |
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> somebody is interested in metrics on games I wouldn't measure it based on |
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> packages/bugs assigned to games@g.o, unless you're interested very |
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> specifically in things like the games eclass and so on. |
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+1 well put. |
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