Barney Laurance

I'm not sure why the new BCMath\Number #php 8.4 class isn't listed at either www.php.net/releases/8.4... or www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.... (the latter mentions a bugfix in the class but not its being new) From the RFC it seems like a fairly substantial new feature wiki.php.net/rfc/support_...

The headline says "due to [computer glitch]" but like with any big error in a system there must have been multiple root causes. If it was just one glitch to blame then it'd just be a few letter delayed briefly and it wouldn't be a story.

Testing what happens if I upload an animated gif. Image attribution: Marvel, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Dora metrics questions: 1. Am I right to think that in the "lead time for changes" metric, "code committed" functions just as proxy for code written? We'd rather measure time between code being written and being in prod but the commit timestamp is recorded, the time each character was typed is not?

And following that, 2: Isn't this statement of the metric from Atlassian completly wrong: "lead time for changes is the length of time between when a code change is committed to **the trunk branch** and when it is in a deployable state" (my emphasis) www.atlassian.com/devops/frame...

A couple of thoughts / questions about retro meetings for software teams: 1. Does the commonly used 'dot voting' scheme have any proper name as a voting system? Is there any discussion of its characteristics & the alternatives?