Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>  >  > Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve
>  >  > quality.  It's a positive thing.
>  >
>  >  Sorry, but I have to disagree.  Negative finger-pointing is never a good thing.
>
>  Correct, but let's be careful here. The original suggestion was,
>  effectively, to get better metrics on the quality of contributions.
>  Those metrics *could* be used for finger pointing, or (my preference)
>  they could be used to direct and allocate our scarce resources: code
>  reviews and mentoring.

Exactly!

>  There's no way to know what the metrics will tell us until we have
>  them. Arguing against metrics because they *may* be used to point
>  fingers at people is a silly argument; anything can be subverted to do
>  that.

Thank you, that should have been said before, you worded it perfectly.

>  Let's get some measurements and see what they say. In the meantime,
>  try to believe that they could be put to good purposes, such as
>  identifying code areas that are tricky for contributors to get right
>  (independent of contributor), or contributors that could benefit from
>  code reviews, etc.

This especially is an area that I plan to focus on and should be very
reliable when finished. As can be read in my application, I plan to
look at how often a piece of code is changed, in what timespan and by
how many different authors.

Thanks for the reply!

Cheers,

Sverre