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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] Important feature GNOME has that we don't
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-17 18:21:02
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On Mittwoch, 17. April 2002 19:24, Andy Goossens wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:13, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 17:57, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> > > http://gnome-stats.berlios.de/gnome.html
> > >
> > > ...tells you a percentage of GNOME that each developer has written. I
> > > think that's cool. Hint, hint.
> >
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvstat/?topic_id=53
> >
> > I'll see if I can implement this at home, as a test. I don't have the
> > bandwidth to host it permanently, but if I get can it to work here it
> > should be easy to get it to work on our webcvs machine for example.
>
> Why do we want those statistics? To say "I wrote more than you... haha"?
>
> Why count the number of CVS commits or the number of changed lines? I can
> write a lot of patches with many changes and still everything stays the
> same. I can write something in 10 lines, someone else does the same thing
> in 3 lines, who is more productive?
>
> Another example: Linus gets a lot of patches for his linux kernel and he
> commits those patches. The real authors of those patches will never end up
> in the statistics while Linus gets 100%. Fair?
It's fun though. The thing is screwed as it counts also commits done by 
scripts. If kde-i18n would have been included, I would have won with even
larger distance ;-)

Greetings, Stephan
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