Re: [pm-dir] Fwd: Re: Performance metrics doctors generated email

["Fred Baker (fred)" <[e-mail]>]

I'm not sure what you're asking for. If by "Fred's script" you mean the script that Benoit runs, have at it. If you mean the script I ran this morning, it's actually two. I have attached a small perl script I wrote some years ago and find useful; I think of it as a "paragraph grep". It's arguments are

get-refs <file> [-nc] [-word]* [word]*
      The file is a text file
      -nc means to observe case; by default it is case-agnostic
      -<word> means that if the word is present in a paragraph, do NOT export the paragraph 
      <word> means that if the word is present in a paragraph, DO export the paragraph 

It basically prints out paragraphs (in the 1-or-more 60-column line sense) that contain one or more of the <words> and none of the -<words>. A word, by the way, may contain an arbitrary amount of white space including line feeds.

With this in hand, I then wrote

#!/bin/csh
foreach draft ($*)
     echo $draft
     echo ' '
     get-refs $draft 'performance metric'
end

It would be simple enough to pipe that into a file and take a diff -c -w against the previous week's version.


On May 23, 2013, at 5:14 PM, "MORTON JR., ALFRED C (AL)" <[e-mail]>
 wrote:

> Nice, a few paragraphs from the draft provide enough context 
> to see if the use of "performance metric" is something the Directorate
> should consider.  Thanks Fred.
> 
> As I've said in the past, if we were running Fred's script weekly,
> we would need to consider only on the diffs from last week,
> so we can add new reviewer assignments.  Since this benefits me
> the most, I'd be willing to add the differencing lines to the script...
> 
> Without carping on too long here, we have quite a few outstanding assignments
> and drafts needing volunteers to review:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmKrqWIOBsprdGZqMnB6dmx5bFJvVUhta3VLSjl3SkE#gid=0
> 
> regards,
> Al
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [e-mail] [[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Benoit Claise [[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:45 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: Fred Baker
> Subject: [pm-dir] Fwd: Re:  Performance metrics doctors generated email
> 
> Dear pm-dir,
> 
> Some more help from Fred.
> All the drafts containing "performance metrics", along with the specific
> section.
> That should help identifying the drafts that are important to review.
> 
> Regards, Benoit

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