This thread somehow reminds me how the company I'm working for
tries to measure my profitability: lines of code edited,
number of bugs fixed in what time, and other odd things :-)
Sorry if this is the wrong subject ...
Greg Sabino Mullane schrieb:
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> Josh Berkus originally wrote:
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>>Hey, for my information (people ask me this a lot) can one of you do a count
>>of patch submitters for 8.0? For 7.4, it was around 180.
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> Perhaps this is the gist of the problem: the 180 count was not "patch
> submitters" but "people who helped develop 7.4" whether or not they actually
> submitted a bona fide patch. If it was just patches, the number would
> probably be about 50 or so, I would estimate. It's certainly a fuzzy line,
> but I'd argue that somebody who points out a memory leak that is subsequently
> patched by Tom should get credit as a "developer", even if no actual patch
> was submitted.
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> I'll give it a go for 8.0 and see what number I come up with.
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