Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
