Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 23:23:27 -0700 From: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net> To: "Tim Vanderhoek" <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: notFreeBSD plan, v 4 Message-ID: <01bd8c5c$9f4c4ea0$4a1daace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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>On Sat, 30 May 1998, Jack Velte wrote: > >> contribution metrics: >> * # emails on list, exponentially decreasing average. >> * # & length (outside of comments) emails on list, >> exponentially decreasing average. >> * lines of source code, minus symbol only lines. >> * core team members. >> * popular vote, clicking on the web. > >Egads! None of those could work. > >Among other things, we strive to minimize source code size, and >the mailing-lists already suffer from too much mail. of course. but some metrics would need to be developed to measure a contributors contribution. a combination of metrics averaged together would provide a passable measure. it's a *decreasing* average, so more messages don't help. it could even be a standard deviation around the mean number of messages per contributor with the highest score for people close to the mean. whatever -- the point is to acknowledge contribution. >> "To produce the best possible software at the lowest possible price >> while making stakeholders rich." > >I think a slightly fundamental problem is that too many people >here do not share your vision. If they (we) were interested in read only the first part. that IS the vision of the freebsd group. i believe that most of them would welcome an income from their efforts if it didn't conflict with the first half of the statement. >$$$, better ways to make $$$ than throwing away many hours into a >volunteer project would have long-ago been found. i know, there are many volunteer projects. it would be neat if this one could morph into a commercial venture that was acceptable to the project community. >Perhaps that's the "problem" with developing a philosophy for >FreeBSD. MS, for example, can simply state their mission as `to >dominate the desktop', or whatever. They then unite behind this. >The reasons for the existance of FreeBSD are much much more >varied and too complex to allow a simple mission statement. the more complex the mission statement, the harder it is to follow it -- the less likely people take it seriously. this is my attempt -- what would you propose? -jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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