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IIRC the perception of Chrome developers was that the Google promo system was incentivizing number of commits and features at one point in time, so they were pe
by junofan 4y ago
IIRC the perception of Chrome developers was that the Google promo system was incentivizing number of commits and features at one point in time, so they were perceived to be just dumping whatever out there.
- nikanj 4y agoIt rewards changes, not just inclusions. Removal of well-liked and widely used features also gets you a good performance review.
- olliej 4y agoBack when I was involved there was a distinct impression that people got bonuses for getting commit rights, etc - so we’d get people who would swing by making the requisite 10-15 patches - generally relatively low value changes (fixing formatting, tidying up comments, etc), get the commit rights and then often never been heard or seen from again. I didn’t know if that was just hearsay - it wasn’t the case when I was at Google but that was some time post blink - but the pattern of behaviour made it seem super plausible.