I'd love to see a comparison with a half dozen other projects. On Aug 29, 2015 02:42, "Marcus" <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:
> In any case this is too much traffic on the private mailing list. > > I would understand Dennis' mail as a wake-up call how much it is currently > and that there is an urgent need to turn down the number of mails. > > Marcus > > > > Am 08/28/2015 11:58 PM, schrieb Phillip Rhodes: > >> So what, if anything, should we take away from this? My (completely >> superficial, naive and uninformed) feeling is that that is a LOT of >> traffic >> on the "private" list. But maybe not. Anyway, is the idea here that >> there >> should be less traffic on that list? More? The same? >> >> I have to admit, I've been pretty dormant for a long-time, so I'm a little >> out of touch with what's going on (gone on) here, but you have me >> intrigued >> with this. >> >> >> Phil >> >> >> This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton<orc...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> From an AOO PMC Member, >>> >>> I have compiled a high-level traffic analysis of discussion activity on >>> the OpenOffice PMC private@ oo.a.o list. These are *statistics* and >>> noisy ones at that. I am looking for trends that are good-enough at this >>> level of precision. It is in the nature of private@ that message >>> content >>> and even the topics must be held in confidence. >>> >>> This report of gross metrics is for the community's appraisal of current >>> state and later progress. The movement of discussions to the community >>> when the confidentiality requirements for PMC discussion do not apply >>> should be seen in movements at this level. Further reports over the >>> course >>> of the year may provide an useful indicator. >>> >>> OVERALL PRIVATE MESSAGE TRAFFIC >>> >>> This is a breakdown of the traffic in the 212 days from January through >>> July, 2015, by role of the sender. >>> >>> 2015 | Private List Messages >>> thru July | PMC ASF Other All >>> >>> Totals 1145 182 31 1358 >>> Senders 22 23 23 68 >>> Per sender 52.0 7.9 1.3 20.0 >>> (average) >>> Per day 5.4 0.9 0.1 6.4 >>> >>> Of all the messages sent, >>> >>> 84% are by members of the PMC, >>> 16% are by other ASF participants, and >>> 17% are by others. >>> >>> The ASF participants include members of Apache Infrastructure, Officers >>> of >>> the ASF, and other ASF Members and staff who make posts to the private >>> list. The "Other" senders are members of the public and non-PMC Apache >>> OpenOffice contributors that raise questions or provide information to >>> the >>> PMC via private@. >>> >>> For the 1145 messages from the 22 PMC members who posted to the list so >>> far this year, >>> >>> 49% of the messages are from the three >>> PMC members who were the most vocal >>> in the studied period. >>> 75% of the messages are from the seven >>> most vocal. >>> 91% were from the most vocal 11 of the >>> 22 PMC members that posted. >>> >>> I confess to being one of those top three posters. >>> >>> >>> NUMBER OF SUBJECTS AND AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION >>> >>> A review of the same message archives, for January - July, 2015, tallied >>> >>> 168 subjects discussed across 1341 posts, >>> about 0.8 new topics per day. >>> The variance of 17 from the first tally >>> is negligible and will not be corrected. >>> The raw data is available for auditing >>> by the PMC. >>> >>> 8.0 is the average number of messages on a >>> single subject >>> >>> 5% is the portion of the overall messages >>> used in the longest thread, one with >>> 73 messages >>> >>> 50% of the messages are on the 20 longest >>> discussion threads. The shortest thread >>> in that group has 18 messages. >>> >>> 75% of the messages are on the 50 longest >>> discussions. The shortest threads in >>> that group have 8 messages. >>> >>> 90% of the messages are on the 84 longest >>> discussions (i.e., half of the >>> threads). The shortest threads in >>> that group have 4 messages each. >>> >>> The remaining 10% consists of 84 threads >>> having 3, 2, and 1 messages each. >>> >>> This does not speak to the quality or the necessity of these messages and >>> any particular thread. The PMC has detailed supporting data. >>> >>> [end of report] >>> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
