On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:38:18PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
 > >         And frankly, that's the only thing that matters anyway; I suspect
 > >  I'd do rather well by proposed criteria, but you know what?  I don't give
 > >  a flying f*ck through the rolling doughnut for self-appointed PHBs and
 > >  their idea of performance reviews.
 >
 > (Geez, conflate the issue much?) No one is saying you should. But
 > also, I haven't seen anyone saying it'd be used for performance
 > reviews other than you.


|| If there are individuals at whom a finger needs to be pointed, this
 || system will highlight them, and fingers will (and should) be pointed.
 || Contributors of poor-quality code need to be weeded-out.

 in this thread (From: David Newall).

Ah, I failed reading comprehension, yet again. Well, sounds like you
have a beef to take up with David, then. That's still not an argument
against trying to gather statistics and to see if they're worth
anything.

 > <shrug> Shame and Guilt, two major motivators of human behavior, it's
 > true. But, one last time, *you're* the one saying the stats would be
 > used for finger pointing at people.

 Not really.  Unless you are trying to imply that David is my sock puppet, that
 is...

Momentarily amusing to think so, but no :-).