Theodp writes "How'd you like to be deemed unworthy of a job based upon a scan of your GitHub updates? That's what proffer in a newly-published IBM patent form for Automated anatomy of Code Developer's Profile, which proposes weeding out developer possibilities for certain roles based on things like the amount of changes one consistently makes with each commit, how naturally and frequently one makes commits, what hours of the day one makes commits, the interest of commits with conflicts that one resolves, and the 'depth' of one's commit cue ('shallow', 'mid-range' or 'deep'). Big Blue explains that commit or repository interactions can be used to produce a 'conclusion report' that equate a creator to others who have form on the repository, which helps supervision 'avoid wasted time with ineffective developers."

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