Ben Hyde wrote: > > Thomas Eibner wrote: > > One volunteer has already come forward to help us gather data and we've > > compiled some statistics from this mailinglist showing how many posts > > each person has made since '95: > > > > Total Posts on [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 87510 > > > > 1: ... > > This comes up from time to time. Somebody measures something; bugs > submitted, bugs fixes, lines written, commits made, documents written, > mails send, bylaws written, meetings attended, email threads started, > email threads ended, uses of the word 'bucket'... > > When it has come up before I have written variations of the following. > Try not to take this as an attack on the volunteer or the messenger > but ... > > I have very strong objections to nieve attempts to reduce the > contributions made by various individuals into 'objective' scores and > 'leader boards'. >
I agree as well... such metrics are misleading at best and insulting and disruptive at worst. They are, to be blunt, dangerous to a collaborative environment and should be avoided if possible. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson
