10 Tips for Better Pull Requests

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/16/15 2:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've worked at companies that would rate engineers based on the "bug
> count". That ended very badly, it was so bad it was comical, how working
> that number actually wrecked the quality of the product. I've seen
> similar disasters with use of metrics on inventory minimization, and
> others. Ever since it has made me deeply suspicious about basing quality
> on such numbers.

One anecdote is what it is. There is a lot of value in informative 
proxies. -- Andrei