On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Recently we exchanged some thoughts (twitter and otherwise) regarding the > status of Apache top level projects and about how the reporting by the ASF > to the projects and the wider communities could be improved. > > Currently the status pages at http://status.apache.org regarding project > health (commit activity and mailing lists) don't allow drill down into > individual projects. Is it achievable to get this kind of functionality? > > Can we (as the ASF) also provide insights in number of people joining and > leaving the mailing lists of the projects and show what the trending topics > over the periods? > But also reporting on average depth and width of mailing list threads? > > I do believe that these kind of insights will help monitoring project > health and investigate where projects can improve regarding community > building. > > > I'm not so sure that mailing list subscription counts are very representative -- I recently unsubscribed from almost every forum I had ever joined because classification by labelling in gmail is a hit and miss, and the deluge of mails that were incorrectly sorted was too much. Instead, I use the web interfaces for those forums now. So, I would like to see the mailing list web interface be improved: Better thread navigation; and the ability to 'one-click (un)subscribe' to a given thread or a watch for keywords in the subject(subject to being logged in). Being able to choose a digest or continuous format on a per-case basis would also be nice. If that could be done, collected statistics about participation would be far more reliable and informative. G -- Visit my Coding Diary: http://gabriela-gibson.blogspot.com/
