Re: Q3 GNOME quarterly report

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2011, 21:26 +0100 schrieb Kenneth Nielsen:
> Den 09-11-2011 20:16, Gil Forcada skrev:
> > El dc 09 de 11 de 2011 a les 16:47 +0100, en/na Kenneth Nielsen va
> > escriure:
> >> Den 09-11-2011 16:14, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy skrev:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Kenneth Nielsen<k nielsen81 gmail com>   wrote:
> >>>> Den 09-11-2011 09:45, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy skrev:


> >> commit should roughly equal the following number of strings:
> >>
> >> number_of_updated_strings_per_cycle/(number_of_modules *
> >> number_of_updates_per_module_in_a_cycle)
> >>

> point was exactly, that the number of commits should make a perfectly 
> reasonably metric for _comparisons_ of activity, which can be used for 
> the kind of "general terms" measurements that you are talking about.

Hi

I tend to strongly disagree here; very little conclusions can be drawn
from looking
at the numbers of commits, even considering the total number of strings
updated
in a 6 month release cycle.
Commits can be anything between adding yourself to the list of
translators
and adding a new, entirely translated file of fivethousand new strings,
I do not 
see the benefit of looking at the number of commits. Correct me if I am
wrong.

Is it not just the plain number of words in strings translated that
matter?
Or less precise, the number of strings translated?


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Christian Kirbach <Christian Kirbach googlemail com>