Thanks Niclas,

Openhub has most of what I was thinking.   It’s a case of not knowing what was 
out there.   Thanks so much for the link.  There is a little more I would like 
to see with this.  But this is a big help.    Now, I know that it can & has 
been done, I can add what I need or use as is.

Most of the information in OpenHub comes from version control logs which is 
awesome.   I wanted to report on builds, issues, unit tests (where they exists) 
as well.   The only missing piece was how to query ASF Jira without the 100 
record limit.   Based on your feedback, this may be a non-issue as I’m 
connecting to the Jira projects as ‘anonymous’ and anonymous users by default 
may have the 100 record limit.

Niclas, not many people take the time to respond to these types of 
requests/inquires.  I’m very guilty of that myself.   Thanks for your input!

-Alfred



From: hedh...@gmail.com [mailto:hedh...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Niclas Hedhman
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 3:40 AM
To: Alfred Webber <atweb...@wimss.com>
Cc: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: Metrics & Baseline Reporting to Apache


Trust me, I was not offended by your request, more "surprised" and somewhat "so 
what do you want from us". And maybe I should have dug up 
http://www.openhub.com that provides these kind of metrics, and I know of one 
other effort as well, but can't find the link (possibly not public yet).

I am just one peer here, and other people may have other opinion. In no way is 
my reply a stance of ASF itself, but I think you understand that.

Good Luck
Niclas

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Alfred Webber 
<atweb...@wimss.com<mailto:atweb...@wimss.com>> wrote:
Hi Niclas,

I’m not sure I wanted anyone to jump up and down as If I discovered water on 
Mars ☺.  This is not a new concept or idea.  I simply haven’t seen it being 
published and thought it would be a nice thing.

Of course, just because I haven’t seen it, doesn’t make it innovative and, of 
course, the technology involve is not earth shattering in the least and I never 
suggested as much.  In fact, I even mentioned that it may already be done.   I 
think that a simple message pointing me to the other efforts, if they are 
published, would have been a more appropriate response as that is what I 
suggested was a possibility in my message.

I understand the concept of ASF.  I understand that there are no “teams”.   The 
teams I was referencing were external teams.   I did, however, assume that 
there may be some gate-keeper[s] (team leads) for the ASF tools like Jira, SVN 
, and Jenkins and that I might need some understanding around access to these 
tools, Jira in particular.   I am very familiar with the tools but access to 
query Jira beyond the 100 record limit would require additional information.

Nicla, at times, I work on projects where teams are reluctant to use open 
source code.   This reluctance is, of course, largely unfounded.   Even in 2010 
and beyond, I have had to fight to get tools like Jenkins, Maven, Rundeck, 
Nagios, Nexus, Python, etc. ‘approved’  I’m sure others know this pain.  By 
showing these teams that open source is ran more predictably and is usually 
more repeatable than many in-house projects, it would have some benefit.   The 
tools already in use by ASF do a wonderful job, I was simply looking for 
something that was more abstract/agnostic from the tools as some teams don’t 
use the same tools as ASF.  I wanted metrics capturing that looked at the 
lifecycle of the open source effort in total without respect of the tools that 
captured the data.   For example, something like an Elastic Search dashboard 
that gave a full view of the SDLC without having to go to Jira, Jenkins, SVN, 
etc. separately.

Sometimes in our field we can take offense when none was intended.  I think 
this was one of those times.  If anyone in the Apache dev community was 
offended by my request, please know that was not my goal.  I value your work 
and champion your efforts on all projects!  The entire IT community is in your 
debt.


Thanks a billion,


-Alfred

From: hedh...@gmail.com<mailto:hedh...@gmail.com> 
[mailto:hedh...@gmail.com<mailto:hedh...@gmail.com>] On Behalf Of Niclas Hedhman
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 5:51 PM
To: Alfred Webber <atweb...@wimss.com<mailto:atweb...@wimss.com>>
Cc: dev@community.apache.org<mailto:dev@community.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Metrics & Baseline Reporting to Apache

Forgot to use Alfred's mail address, as I suspect he is not subscribed...

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Niclas Hedhman 
<nic...@hedhman.org<mailto:nic...@hedhman.org>> wrote:
Alfred,
The first metric that you should learn is that there are no "teams" and no 
"team leads" in ASF. There are Apache projects, and they are populated by 
individuals, operating independently of any organizational structure.

Secondly, you are welcome to collect, collate and chart any information that 
you want, as many other organizations and individuals have done in the past. I 
don't see anything new or remarkably innovative by your effort, so I can't 
imagine that anyone within the ASF will jump up and down in excitement over 
your request.


Good Luck
Niclas


On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Alfred Webber 
<atweb...@wimss.com<mailto:atweb...@wimss.com>> wrote:
Hi team,


I am a SCM/Dev OPS Architect.   I would like to offer advanced CM Metrics and 
analysis features to the Apache project if you have not already done it or have 
any plans to do so.   I would like to discuss this with team leads if possible. 
 I will host the metrics if necessary as a benefit to the team.

The metrics will collect, collate, and chart information for all projects.  The 
data will be collected from

1.      SVN

2.      Jira

3.      Jenkins

4.      Sonar

5.      Etc.

The metrics could be a boon for those teams that make use of Apache projects to 
see a BI approach to the efforts of the Apache team.   Of course, like other 
partners, it would benefit myself as well.  Having provided this kind of 
service to the Apache project would illustrate the acumen of myself and my team.


I eagerly await your response ☺,


-Alfred Webber
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