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Re: 1,145 pull requests per day

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Post by mdaniel »

I hope they're not using GitHub; my inbox is unusable from GitHub talking to itself and choosing to stand next to me at the party, and we're not [currently] doing anywhere near that volume

I've gotten some handle on it by some gmail filters but holy hell if you want to make sure I don't see something, smuggle it in a From:github.com email

With the new Copilot makes PRs, I could easily imagine getting to 1145 PRs per day, of which 45 will actually make it across the line and not be filled with horseshit

Re: 1,145 pull requests per day

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

Diminishing returns at some point, but, I think the counterpoint to this is companies who are doing a single huge manual deployment every month (or less) which is scheduled into a 4-hour outage window where many if not all services will be down for this period.

I do agree there isn't a lot of delta between a company doing 2 or 10 deploys a day and a company doing 1,200, but, there's a huge engineering gap between companies who do approximately .03 deploys per day and those doing multiple.

Re: 1,145 pull requests per day

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Post by chhs »

cuttothechase wrote: post #7

Is counting the number of pull requests a useful measure of engineering performance ergo product performance and company perf? Isn't it more like a BS counter that keep incrementing and that is indicative of churn but nothing else reliably. One of the most low effort, easily to game metric that can be skewed to show anything that the user wants to show.

In my org they count both the number of pull requests, and the number of comments you add to reviews. Easily gamed, but that's the performance metric they use to compare every engineer now.
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