[Please Cc: me since I am not subscribed, I hope mutt figures this out] On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:45:18AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance > to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have > taken away from Debian development). Please consider http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BehavioralEffectOfMetrics. Especially following section: | As JimCoplien has been saying for years (repeating an old adage), | "What gets measured gets done." Measure the Severity A bug reports? | Nothing that doesn't actually kill a user will be higher than Severity | B. How long are bug reports in the "open" state? They never will be; | they'll skip directly from "created" to "closed" (or will be | transitioned as soon as the system allows). Track how many lines of | code a programmer writes? You'll see a lot of comments. Measure lines | of non-commentary code? There are tricks to bloat that one, too; you | may even encourage copy-and-paste.-( Measure how many bug reports a | programmer does real work on? You'll see heavy concentration on | trivial fixes, and an avoidance of doing anything complicated. | I've always mistrusted software metrics. All too often, all they | measure is how well people can manipulate them. (I hate having this | attitude! Improving software quality or software development without | metrics is like loosing weight without ever getting on a scale. Not | that getting on a broken scale will help a dieter any....) | --PaulChisholm I can only support Andres Salomon, that very much care has to be taken, to _not_ bias this game against current goals (quality and users). Iff this can be archived, it could be quite fun ... > If you have ideas for a better name, send them to > asuffield-botm-name@debian.org. "Hunt the Wumpbug" Regards, David -- Afrika kommt nach Europa. Das ist der Kontinentaldrift. Da kann man auch mit einem neuen Asylgesetz nichts dagegen machen. Das sollte mal wer denen von der FPÖ erklären! -- Dieter Nuhr (www.nuhr.de) in der Wiener Remise, 2002-08-02
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