From: "Alexander Kuleshov" <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:53 AM
None of these warrant the code churn, I would say.
Sorry, english is not my first language, what did you mean when
saying:
"code churn"? Code duplication or something else?
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Hi Alexander,
The term 'churn' is originally from British butter making.
Churn:
verb
1.shake (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter.
"the cream is ripened before it is churned"
synonyms: stir, agitate;
2.(with reference to liquid) move or cause to move about vigorously.
"the seas churned".
For Code (used in a somewhat negative sense), it means that lots of bits
are moved around a great deal for
little apparent benefit.
In the sense Junio used it, I believe it's suggesting that the balance
between the amount of change and usefulness of the change had gone
further than hoped. (Though Junio is usually open to receiving a well
argued case)
Philip
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churn_rate
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