From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5748A198005 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62D84E064B; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99664E05EC for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id u54so2779279wey.16 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:30:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=HoldRu3GKEC9Rizk6sH487ynEu/UhSdkCsD9NEKXsOU=; b=Z9qXSn3Gqk5o5EQy9jU08vu2HAT3tDaUckv9/cPh/d9a5Y8WuC0tekiUtB8oLtEGxk giw7JWIbKISfgUn13c/84dfI3hIZxRV76psOqiTDm7fd6Zga4xXzd3S/6+GY9Ubwmtox VGBtzXTiBTuse/3WlatIi36k3F5LzvJaqU0uFcL5KKqYdzqyJA/FOE8SOg1a+iFBkISK zbfgdUULTG7RmwcXQRrH7CZpbVqOMxqXFd7XmJDZMwKHJICEBtclW2hTb31BASXr5aWu nOzuvnRZQzQAyrq/ZbIJ0xPy/yGKBMgRNjGrMr/cUEystdtYsjZigYZt7Kd24/y2SePM cuTQ== X-Received: by 10.194.7.196 with SMTP id l4mr19061096wja.28.1362159019226; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:30:19 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: markos.chandras@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.121.136 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:29:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130301170000.04ba50ed@googlemail.com> References: <20130301163513.00573eb4@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20130301170000.04ba50ed@googlemail.com> From: Markos Chandras Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:29:59 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8tTqszGAjgR5IHraptGcC1CLaDQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The Rise and Fall of a Central Contributor: Dynamics of Social Organization and Performance in the Gentoo Community To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6c7c698f-c242-4798-b08e-6c9eff228720 X-Archives-Hash: 2026e03d66fe00125ccf577e2a02e301 On 1 March 2013 17:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:57:03 +0000 > Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 1 March 2013 16:47, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jeroen Roovers >> > 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