Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
I join the chorus of people trying to stop this chorus before it gets from 49 bottles of beer on the wall to 48. There is a meta-question here: what are the criteria by which the IPMC should evaluate a proposal? 1. "Are there enough people on the proposal to plausibly start out?" I think everyon

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Greg Stein wrote on 06/03/2011 02:13:43 AM: > > I don't see any of this discussion about numbers being helpful, only > divisive. "My numbers are right." "No, they're not. See?" "But those numbers > are too small." > I agree, especially if the numbers are not relevant to the question at hand.

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > I don't see any of this discussion about numbers being helpful, only > divisive. "My numbers are right." "No, they're not. See?" "But those numbers > are too small." > > Get over it already, people. Find something substative to discuss. > Agreed.

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-03 Thread dsh
+1 On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > I don't see any of this discussion about numbers being helpful, only > divisive. "My numbers are right." "No, they're not. See?" "But those numbers > are too small." > > Get over it already, people. Find something substative to discuss. > > -

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
I don't see any of this discussion about numbers being helpful, only divisive. "My numbers are right." "No, they're not. See?" "But those numbers are too small." Get over it already, people. Find something substative to discuss. -g On Jun 3, 2011 1:22 AM, "Norbert Thiebaud" wrote: > On Thu, Jun

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: > >> >> -    $scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. >$outdir/all-lo.log >> +    $scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' >>$outdir/all-lo.log >> >>    Show 'active' contributors by affiliati

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Michael Meeks wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: > > -$scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. >$outdir/all-lo.log > +$scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' >$outdir/all-lo.log > >Show 'active' contributors by affiliation - ie. at least one patch > contributed in the

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Meeks
So, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:55 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Questionable? If only 54 people have checked in code in the last 6 > months, then no amount of magic with source code indentation is going to > get you to 400 developers. If you disagree, I'd like to see the magic you > ca