[EGO] Re: Project Activity

[di...@multitask.com.au]

FWIW, there is no 'ranking' in the cvs activity report, unless you 
consider alphabetical order ranking. But I'm not going to complain about 
people who would otherwise do nothing doing some of the 'cosmetic' stuff 
like documentation/javadoc etc.

And everyone seems to have ignored the file activity report - which helps 
to find code that is unstable.
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05/14/02 01:33 AM
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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Peter Donald wrote:

> On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:17, Danny Angus wrote:
> > Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit 
the
> > essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and
> > non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its progress.
> 
> Agreed - even worse. Sometimes after these activity meters turn up you 
get 
> committers breaking up one commit into many commits, presumably to push 
their 
> activity level up. You also get the many typographic changes for much 
the 
> same reason.

Breaking one big commit into many commits is not bad.
It makes things easier to review, the commit comment can describe much
better what has been done in the file.

Putting a 'ranking' on commiter's activity is however very bad.
Some are working full time ( as part of their job ), some are using
the little free time they find ( or sleep less ). I think the 
second category deserves a lot of apreciation, even if they may have 
fewer commits. 

Costin

> I have found that higher healthy activity is actually indicated by small 

> localized changes. This is not going to be captured in a simple count 
the 
> commits and note the committer style approach.
> 
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