[Article] A scorecard for processes and features.

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Proposer: Asim Hussain | Exec. Dir. & Chair | @jawache )
Abstract: Energy rating is commonplace for household appliances, cars and even houses. Why not software? Emissions depend on a number of factors, e.g. the 'ls' command is going to be incredibly efficient and perhaps scores an A, how would you score windows explorer? A D? But it does a lot more. How would you solve this objectively without bringing a human opinion into it.
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Discussed here.

@jawache notes:

Do you have a process to monitor the SCI score of your application in production?
Has your team completed the green software training?

If you answer yes to 100% you get an A, 90% you get a B etc...

IMO we should be scoring the "development process" not "a specific version of an application", ls and windows explorer can both score A, even if they have wildly different feature sets as long as they have strong process's in place to ensure all future versions of the software emit the least carbon possible.

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Bench until we can write a conversation piece.
@jawache sees this more as a project right now that we need to perhaps focus on/create. Punting for a couple of months.