From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #08; Fri, 25) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:39:02 +0100 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <27645ABF2E944872BB3F944B17E9490B@PhilipOakley> References: <20140425231953.GB3855@sigill.intra.peff.net> <535b0db7e5e31_ba2148d310f4@nysa.notmuch> <535b4c5a3c91c_3d63109d2f00@nysa.notmuch> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Felipe Contreras" , "Alex Davidson" , X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 26 11:39:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wdz4l-0005Y2-8N for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:39:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751886AbaDZJjH (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2014 05:39:07 -0400 Received: from out1.ip04ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.240]:21592 "EHLO out1.ip04ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbaDZJjE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2014 05:39:04 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoBbANF9W1MCYJIz/2dsb2JhbABZgwZfA4MphT28LAUBAgEMgQMXdIIgBQEBBAEIAQEZFR4BASYGAgMFAgEDFQUCBSECAhQBBAgSBgcXBgESCAIBAgMBCAKIEgMJDKc8hVmWYQ2HD4EpixiCTYJBNYEVBI9mhzWOeIVUgzI8 X-IPAS-Result: AoBbANF9W1MCYJIz/2dsb2JhbABZgwZfA4MphT28LAUBAgEMgQMXdIIgBQEBBAEIAQEZFR4BASYGAgMFAgEDFQUCBSECAhQBBAgSBgcXBgESCAIBAgMBCAKIEgMJDKc8hVmWYQ2HD4EpixiCTYJBNYEVBI9mhzWOeIVUgzI8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,932,1389744000"; d="scan'208";a="444661396" Received: from host-2-96-146-51.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([2.96.146.51]) by out1.ip04ir2.opaltelecom.net with SMTP; 26 Apr 2014 10:39:02 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Felipe Contreras" > > My conclusion is based on logic and reason, you forget "And repeatable measurement / evidence" .... > which > are the bedstone of science. > You can make sensible decisions based on that alone, and in fact > that's how > most good decisions are made. > > -- > Felipe Contreras > -- At the moment we are missing the repeatable measurements, which can't happened until the @{publish}, and others, have been released and used for a while[1], otherwise we [prematurely] are back to one size fits all solutions. I suspect your solution may become the lead candidate for @{p}, but as they say, "making predictions is hard, especially about the future". regards Philip [1] we don't have a good measurement technique for existing usage frequencies (as typed by real users in real life, weighted by user type, ...) either!