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Objective measures are a good thing. Otherwise you just end up with some subjective opinions nitting bro culture even closer together.

> As a maintainer of a security-oriented open source library, the paranoia of "is this person trying to help or to exploit?" That's an excellent mind set when reviewing code, no ma…

In a corporate proprietary code base this is REALLY easy. Just commit a bug. Happens every day, everywhere. Just that normally these are mistakes. You can easily mask a deliberatel…

> potentially all your users might go with the fork That's the issue right there. Why would you care? Clearly, the maintainer is invested in having a "community". Why? They must ex…

The trick is to align the metrics with company goals. It's not easy, but not impossible either. For example, if quality is your goal, then the metric you give your devs is "number …