linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND or not ATTEND] That's the question!

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Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:29:06 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	ksummit-2012-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND or not ATTEND] That's the
 question!

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:50:05 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> A good start would be if you could convert your kernel statistics into
> accounting the consolidation effects of contributions instead of
> fostering the idiocy that corporates have started to measure themself
> and the performance of their employees (I'm not kidding, it's the sad
> reality) with line and commit count statistics.

I would dearly love to come up with a way to measure "real work" in
some fashion; I've just not, yet, figured out how to do that.  I do
fear that the simple numbers we're able to generate end up creating the
wrong kinds of incentives.

Any thoughts on how to measure "consolidation effects"?  I toss out
numbers on code removal sometimes, but that turns out to not be a whole
lot more useful than anything else on its own.

Thanks,

jon
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