Andrew Farris <lordmorgul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
[...]
> If you can't measure something, how can you ever improve it
- or
> know whether you did?
You can't. Thats the point I was making. It is impossible to
measure
against a 'metric' thats not observable/quantifiable/finite.
True.
So
Richard asks about measuring Fedora; can't be done.
Many things can be measured, the trick is to select things that /can/ be
measured that (reliably!) tell something about what you want to know.
Commits/day to
cvs, package changes, users logged into systems, bug reported, etc,
are measurable. So is the number of random unrelated emails sent to
devel-list per hour!
Right. Which ones tell you something worthwhile?
(ah the irony of this reply existing itself, with mostly pointless
drivel)
Nodz ;-)
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