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Thank you Gareth, this makes total sense.

We will make sure to include this in the next release.

Alex Freedland
Mirantis, Inc.




On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Gareth <academicgareth at gmail.com> wrote:

> A suggestion:
>
> sort bugs number as int is much better than string, because '112' < '8'
> but actually 112 > 8
>
> http://stackalytics.com/companies/unitedstack
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Alex Freedland <afreedland at mirantis.com>wrote:
>
>> Roman,
>>
>> Thank you for your comment. I agree that is should not be the only way to
>> look at the statistics and that is why Stackalytics also measures the
>> number of contributions and soon will add the number of reviews. I do,
>> however, think it a useful statistic as because not all commits are created
>> equal.
>>
>> To your argument that the developers will write longer code just for the
>> sake of statistics, I think this will not happen en mass. First and
>> foremost, the developers care about their reputations and knowing that
>> their code is peer-reviewed, very few will intentionally write inefficient
>> code just to get their numbers up. Those few who will choose this route
>> will lose the respect of their peers and consequently will not be able to
>> contribute as much.
>>
>> Also, in order to deal with the situations where people can manipulate
>> the numbers, Stackalytics allows anyone in the community to correct the
>> line count where it does not make sense.  (
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Stackalytics#Commits_metrics_corrections_and_a_common_sense_approach
>> ).
>>
>> We welcome any other improvements and suggestions on how to make
>> OpenStack statistics more transparent, meaningful and reliable.
>>
>> Alex Freedland
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Roman Prykhodchenko <
>> rprikhodchenko at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I still think counting lines of code is evil because it might encourage
>>> some developers to write longer code just for statistics.
>>>
>>> On Jul 23, 2013, at 16:58 , Herman Narkaytis <hnarkaytis at mirantis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/> is pleased to announce the release
>>> of Stackalytics <http://www.stackalytics.com/> 0.1. You can find
>>> complete details on the Stackalytics wiki<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Stackalytics> page,
>>> but here are the brief release notes:
>>>
>>>    - Changed the internal architecture. Main features include advanced
>>>    real time processing and horizontal scalability.
>>>    - Got rid of all 3rd party non-Apache libraries and published the
>>>    source on StackForge under the Apache2 license.
>>>    - Improved release cycle tracking by using Git tags instead of
>>>    approximate date periods.
>>>    - Changed project classification to a two-level structure: OpenStack (core,
>>>    incubator, documentation, other) and StackForge.
>>>    - Implemented correction mechanism that allows users to tweak
>>>    metrics for particular commits.
>>>    - Added a number of new projects (Tempest, documentation, Puppet
>>>    recipes).
>>>    - Added company affiliated contribution breakdown to the user's
>>>    profile page.
>>>
>>> We welcome you to read, look it over, and comment.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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