These meters have been all around downtown Baltimore for a couple years now and while I agree that the round-trip to the ticket dispenser is annoying from an efficiency standpoint, it's still FAR better than coin meters if only for the sole reason that they take credit/debit cards. I don't keep change in my car (great way to get your car broken into in some parts). I haven't deliberately carried coins in my pockets for probably a decade.

The biggest problem I've had with the electronic meters is that you can't add time to an existing ticket. You have to either pay more in advance to 'make sure' you won't run out of time or you'll end up paying double for overlapping time. If I return back early and there's significant time remaining, I usually take the ticket back to the dispenser leaving it in the credit card slot or similar visible place so the next person can use it.

What do I really want? I'd like for people that touch my car while parallel parking to get an automatic citation. Let me decide whether to wave the fine or not. Hooking parking into the EZPass system would also be nice, so the parking spots know when I'm there, I'm automatically microbilled, and a ticket is no longer necessary.

Probably a very easy job.

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It's not a big deal except to the PLplot devs as an arbitrary line being passed. Kudos to them for making ten thousand measured changes to their code, hope they make it to the next decimal place up. Probably not unlike the mild nod of appreciation you might feel when you hit 100,000.

It's a rather meaningless metric in general simply because there are massive differences in commit styles across projects and even within the same project. Even less meaningful than the meaningless lines-of-code metric. As an example, BRL-CAD's commits were almost universally 'huge' commits until it went open source. Then the more iterative 'chatter' commit style of most open source projects was adopted where they became much much smaller and considerably more frequent, communicating intent much better. Revision history that's actually useful! Even now, there are some devs that commit early, commit often, and others on the project that still have a tendency to commit big when left unchecked.