Mark Leicester wrote:
On 11 May 2005, at 13:10, Ross Gardler wrote:
Mark Leicester wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've been looking at various statistical representations of community
activity:
GMANE:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user
Vadim:
http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/cocoon.html
Ken Coar:
http://people.apache.org/~coar/mlists.html#cocoon.apache.org
At a glance it seems the developers' list maintains a fairly steady
flow of traffic. More worrying for me is the downward trend in the
users' list. This is particularly noticeable in gmane's representation:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user
At the risk of sounding like Chicken Licken
(http://www.ongoing-tales.com/SERIALS/oldtime/FAIRYTALES/
chicklicken.html) I think that we ought to investigate this further
and perhaps come up with some new strategies to arrest this fall.
This may include interviewing the user list, asking our subscribers
what they want, what they don't like, their level of expertise, etc.
Can it be shown that this downward trend is not a result of improving
documentation?
That's certainly a possibility. If it's true then I suppose we can
expect to see a corresponding increase in Wiki activity. I'll take a
look at the docs list... Hmmm, the docs list (where Wiki changes are
posted) has also dropped:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.documentation
Perhaps the only way we can test this is by asking these sorts of
questions in a questionnaire. Would people like me to prepare a draft
questionnaire for discussion?
no, thanks.
I really don't see any problem in cocoon's social health.
--
Stefano.
