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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Offer to do some stats analysis for KDE
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-04-26 17:38:01
Message-ID: 201004261938.02085.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Monday 26 April 2010, Justin Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 April 2010, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > A Diumenge, 25 d'abril de 2010, Troy Unrau va escriure:
> > > > On 25 April 2010 14:57, Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> wrote:
> > > > > Personally i'm only interested if his scripts are made public,
> > > > > otherwise there is no way to trust his study.
> > > > 
> > > > Um, wouldn't he be publishing a thesis, ergo peer review?
> > > 
> > > Master thesis != Phd thesis
> > > 
> > > The peer review happening in a master thesis is 0.
> > 
> > Even for papers on conferences or journals, even while they are reviewed,
> > only
> > the papers themself are reviewed. If they present results from whatever
> > experiments, the sources, scripts, tools, etc. don't have to be published
> > anywhere, so actually the numbers in such papers cannot be verified.
> > Here's more on that: http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/6
> 
> Wouldn't that be a non-issue in this case though?  We're the ones giving
> him the original/source data to analyze, correct?

But I guess we will not give him the tools/scripts he will use to process 
them. And it's about these tools, which extract the information from svn/git 
and produce numbers.

Alex
 
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