"John Stracke" <jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com> writes:
And the authors do caution that their numbers are blind to the quality of
the RFCs. Their point, though, is that looking at the easy metrics is
better than not measuring anything at all; it gives a first-order
approximation.
I disagree.
Some metrics (lines of code written per day, number of bugs found per
person, etc) are *actively* harmful to gather & report.
Counting RFCs looks like it's bad the same way that pure LOC counts
are bad.
Saying "we must measure *something*" is the Politician's Fallacy ("we
must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this.")
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