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Agreed - it's great to see what people have been contributing to and working on - but the number of commits and days in a row with a commit seem like meaningles
by freditup 14y ago
Agreed - it's great to see what people have been contributing to and working on - but the number of commits and days in a row with a commit seem like meaningless data.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoWell, measuring the quality of commits is an AI-complete task, so we need some proxies. Number of commits seems to encourage more small commits, which AFAIR is what is preferred in Git. Days in a row is an old "don't break the chain" trick. > Streak? C'mon, what is this, Xbox Live? Most likely, yes. I guess it's not about what that data means, it's more about what it does to you. I dread to use this word, but it's gamification.
- chimeracoder 14y ago> I dread to use this word, but it's gamification. Which is the problem. I already enjoy writing code, and I don't need it to be gamified in order to give me an incentive to do so. Worse, gamifying it skews the incentives, reducing overall code quality in the process.