IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 9, 2012 @04:37AM from the combine-with-eye-tracking dept.

theodp writes "How'd you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That's what proposed in a newly-published IBM patent application for Automated Analysis of Code Developer's Profile, which proposes weeding out developer candidates for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one typically makes with each commit, how frequently and regularly one makes commits, what hours of the day one makes commits, the percentage of commits with conflicts that one resolves, and the 'depth' of one's commit comments ('shallow', 'mid-range' or 'deep'). Big Blue explains that commit or repository interactions can be used to produce a 'conclusion report' that compares a developer to others who have profiles on the repository, which helps management 'avoid wasted time with ineffective developers."

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What do eHarmony and IBM have in common..... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

They're both full of people who are afraid to commit.
Good by will_die · 2012-02-09 04:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Let IBM have the patents that way no other vendor will add theses to thier products.
I'm going to patent... by spidercoz · 2012-02-09 04:47 · Score: 5, Funny

...judging companies by the number of bullshit patents they file.
Business methods are NOT inventions, they do NOT advance the sciences or useful arts, and SHOULD NOT BE PATENTABLE!

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Translation by davidbrit2 · 2012-02-09 04:49 · Score: 4, Funny

"IBM Seeks Patent On Poor Management"
Re:So this patent is good! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 06:50 · Score: 4, Funny

If only they
had patented
the metric
for judging
code by
number of
lines written/
changed/
updated
.