[Aust-NZ] Initial Proposal - [was Finding a way forward - GeoNetwork ... ANZLIC Profile]

[Hamish]

Bruce wrote:
> However, in the public sector and also in many larger private
> organisations there is a Human Resources process in place that
> are based on Performance Management.
...
> As to specific metrics that can be used, I'm open to
> suggestions. They must be specific, meaningful and measurable.

there is nothing too wrong with outcome based funding, they want to know thier money is well spent even if they are not an expert in the field. but I think it is wise to avoid metrics which micro-manage and focus on deliverable results instead.

e.g. assesment by number of lines of code committed per day or number of commits is very useless. I can commit each time I save the file or wait and do one big commit when I have finished the module I am working on; SVN likes big atomic commits, while I assume a CMS like git likes many smaller ones, more often. If I want more lines of code I can adjust indent rules or write less efficient C ...

better is to have contracts that say "we will pay you X dollars to impliment Y feature in a functional and usable way, and require you to submit it to upstream with documentation and examples and assist with any merge issues that arise therein." rather than get hung up on the details of lines of code or commits.


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Hamish