"Stefan Schulze" <algroth_at_gmx.de> writes:
> prakash tiwary wrote:
>> Think a case, where the average commit of a developer is
>> very less than others members, say for example 3 times in
>> a month or two months, where as the others have around 20.
>> This is an indication that work is not proportionally
>> distributed as per role or some thing wrong happenings.
>
> This could also mean that the developer have the same workload, but he's not
> commiting as frequently as the other developers.
>
> Using these metrics for management-purposes you encourage the developers to
> commit extremely often (every twenty minutes or something like that). The
> complexity of the commited work isn't taken into account neither.
Indeed.
Measure the quality of a programmer by the number of commits she makes
is like measuring the quality of a legislature by the number of laws it
passes.
-Karl
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