"John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com> writes:
>
> And the authors do caution that their numbers are blind to the quality of
> the RFCs. Their point, though, is that looking at the easy metrics is
> better than not measuring anything at all; it gives a first-order
> approximation.
I disagree.
Some metrics (lines of code written per day, number of bugs found per
person, etc) are *actively* harmful to gather & report.
Counting RFCs looks like it's bad the same way that pure LOC counts
are bad.
Saying "we must measure *something*" is the Politician's Fallacy ("we
must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this.")
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