Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:59 PM
>> To: Parrish, Ken
>> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: Source code statistics ...
>>
>>
> [snip]
>
>>> Fortunately, I believe the purpose for gathering this information is
>>>
>> strictly PR related, internal or external--not in any sense a metric
>> for measuring from a business or management perspective.
>>
>> Using LOC changed or whatever they're measuring here strictly for PR
>> purposes sounds suspiciously like a "mine's bigger than yours" contest
>> :)
>>
>>
>
> Select text, copy... select alternate document... paste. Commit.
>
> Highlight pasted text, press delete, commit.
>
> Tell boss "look, I made changes to 20000 lines of code yesterday according to our LOC statistics, I must be an uber programmer, I want a payrise".
>
> Profit.
>
> :)
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Ha! This is so interesting that it occupied me today when driving to work.
It depends on which side you are. If you're with managers, you will have
a hell of a task to chase fake commits with millions of commented out
lines, your developers will definitely inject just for fun. While
grepping out ^# is easy, finding multi-line C-like comments /* ... */ is
not and may require help of PERL. I just don't see it...
If you're with the developers (and the product itself), you may need
some good social engineering to prove the earlier. And don't forget to
make it fun for yourself!
R.
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