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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:29:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG2jQ8guWZXY-Cs50b+ZUDrznqBo3chM9uY=y00oOPsRfAxkyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130301170000.04ba50ed@googlemail.com>

On 1 March 2013 17:00, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:57:03 +0000
> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 1 March 2013 16:47, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >> We have been analysed!
>> >>
>> >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7191
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>      jer
>> >>
>> >
>> > As a relative newbie, I have to ask: Who is this "central
>> > contributor" that the paper refers to?
>> >
>>
>> Maybe Daniel Robbins? I haven't read it yet though.
>
> No, the "central contributor" was what Gentoo would term a "bug
> wrangler", and the performance metrics given are related to how bugs are
> handled. The paper shows that there is a correlation between running
> various graph metrics on bugzilla, and who is doing the bug wrangling.
> It's not looking at commits, changes, delivered features or anything
> like that.
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh

Ah thanks. I need to read the paper as well.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-01 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-01 15:35 [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community Jeroen Roovers
2013-03-01 15:41 ` Markos Chandras
2013-03-01 16:47 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-03-01 16:57   ` Markos Chandras
2013-03-01 17:00     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-03-01 17:08       ` Mike Gilbert
2013-03-01 17:29       ` Markos Chandras [this message]
2013-03-01 16:59   ` Andreas K. Huettel

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