[PD-dev] 246th most active

[Matju]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week&offset=200
> We made 246th on the list of most active projects on SourceForge.  We  
> are cranking!

We are now 326th on the list with a score of 98.00000, ex-aequo with
dozens if not hundreds of other projects.

Before rejoicing, the question that should be asked is whether the ranking
system is bogus or not. It does seems very bogus to me.

The "activity" measure doesn't have any definition obvious to everyone, so
if they don't post anything about how they decide the level of activity,
then the measure is bogus.

Also, if everyone is very, very close the same value, and dozens of
people are ex-aequo, for a system for which a more spread-out score
distribution can be designed, this looks very, very fishy. It's as if
the people who created those measures in SF and FM did so with a wild
heuristic and they never bothered to check whether it gave good results at
all because in the end they stopped caring and didn't bother looking back.

PS: Executive Summary: "WTF?!"

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