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by KingMob 778 days ago
> Libyear seems like a decent starting measure if there is no appetite for something more in-depth

Maybe, but couldn't measuring, and thus reacting to, a bad measure be worse than doing nothing?

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Sure, it's almost like you need to exercise judgement when selecting metrics and planning your work.
Right, but that means it's not a decent starting measure.

To me, "decent starting measure if there is no appetite for something more in-depth" sounds like "just drop it in, it's enough to get started, we'll figure out the rest later", but that could be temporarily harmful.

Exercising judgment is the opposite of that, no? Then you're going into depth.