http://dowhatimean.net/2007/01/statcvs-v03 Richard Cyganiak's Weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/01/statcvs-v03#comment-33138 Richard Cyganiak Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:38:04 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/01/statcvs-v03#comment-33138 <p>Sure, Maggi, you would be right if anyone took these reports seriously. But people are smarter than that. Few developers will change their behaviour because they want to look good in the StatCVS report. The reports are an entertaining curiosity, with some genuinely useful bits of data thrown in. As with all statistics, you have to know how to read them to get any use out of them. If your manager is stupid enough to compensate developers based on LOC measures, then I have little sympathy ...</p> Sure, Maggi, you would be right if anyone took these reports seriously. But people are smarter than that. Few developers will change their behaviour because they want to look good in the StatCVS report. The reports are an entertaining curiosity, with some genuinely useful bits of data thrown in. As with all statistics, you have to know how to read them to get any use out of them. If your manager is stupid enough to compensate developers based on LOC measures, then I have little sympathy …

]]> http://dowhatimean.net/2007/01/statcvs-v03#comment-33082 Maggi Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:34:35 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/01/statcvs-v03#comment-33082 <p>Doesn't this lead to evaluating developers by the sheer amount of LOC they wrote? "Developer of the month" - that is ridiculous and it mirrors management thinking which poses quantity above quality. A simple reformatting in Eclipse for every package makes me DotM easily ...</p> Doesn’t this lead to evaluating developers by the sheer amount of LOC they wrote? “Developer of the month” - that is ridiculous and it mirrors management thinking which poses quantity above quality. A simple reformatting in Eclipse for every package makes me DotM easily …

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