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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by radiator on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:05AM (#27631694)
Maybe a panel of maintainers could publish a quarterly review with attribution/thanks to the most important contributors. No metrics to game, only pure human expert opinions.
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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by exikyut on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:30AM (#27632023)
[Generic hand-waving about how LWN kinda does this, in a high-signal manner unfriendly to statistical summation]
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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by jldugger on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:44PM (#27635377)
IMO part of the problem is that Greg KH publishes this annual 'state of the kernel' that is just a list of metrics to game. Which feels like it was started to shame non-RH companies to contribute more often. So, kinda maybe beware what you wish for?

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQr2-Dh0es

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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by everybodyknows on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:21PM (#27632799)
Maintainers aren’t interested in taking on extra chores. However, important contributors already do receive attribution, in the format of news articles, here:

https://lwn.net/Archives/

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