“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”
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#2Looks like LKML purged all mail of June 18?
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#3What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
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#4What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
Key Performance Indicator. The implication is that some Huawei engineers are rewarded for contributing to the kernel.
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#5What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
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#6What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
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#7What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
Key Performance Indicator: ie, someone at huawei’s job performance review depends on “made N open source contributions to major projects”, and Goodhart’s Law strikes again.
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#8What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
key performance indicator? kernel programming interface?
I too ponder the meaning.
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#9I see that these "cleanup" patches are not bringing much value, bust I also don't see why fixing spelling mistakes or log messages is considered as harmful, KPI boosting or not.
The maintainer even said if someone else sent those patches it would be OK, but not if Huawei employees do it. If they distrust Huawei so much, why not just ban them from committing, the same way they did recently with university "security researchers".
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#10What does "KPI" mean in this context? Never heard the term before
"Key Performance Indicator". I believe the implication here is that some people from Huawei are sending useless patches just to pad their performance values and look better inside the company.