On May 20, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
On 5/14/07, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So I've a larger thing bouncing around my head that I think this
could
be part of.
I want to report on activity within projects. This is what the board
really want, rather than the board report's usual bits of activity.
So having been beaten up over this in IRC on Friday I concede that
this is all getting dangerously into metrics and withdraw the idea.
:-(
The general idea being that metrics are more dangerous to our
communities than valuable.
Yeah yeah, lies, damn lies, and statistics :-)
I think metrics are *both* very dangerous and very valuable, which is
why its important that they're done right and in "open development"
fashion. If we don't do them together everybody does their own little
tools and the tools on average end up being crappy. I'd rather see an
ASF board member use a collaboratively developed tool that has sane
metrics, than some dumb script he never had time to do well.
I think we need these tools to keep scaling up (not just the 800
pound apache gorilla but also the open source community / the web of
collaboration).
Can I go and beat up whomever beat you up on IRC?
/LSD
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