I see, we don't have the same vocabulary but the same intent

https://projects.apache.org/ looks much more accurate now

Le lundi 9 juin 2025, 11:16:43 CEST sebb a écrit :
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 08:07, Hervé Boutemy <hbout...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Le lundi 9 juin 2025, 00:15:30 CEST sebb a écrit :
> > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 at 22:19, Hervé Boutemy <hbout...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > > you're right, I don't remember why it made sense to list these more
> > > > than
> > > > 10
> > > > years ago: it was there in the initial import
> > > > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=1651762
> > > > 
> > > > it seems it's because it started by counting PMC chairs, with notions
> > > > of
> > > > TLP and sub-projects...
> > > > 
> > > > nowadays it's more noise than anything on this p.a.o site
> > > > and we have much clearer description of these special offices at
> > > > 
> > > >  https://www.apache.org/foundation/leadership
> > > > 
> > > > +1 to drop this note about the 5 special committees
> > > 
> > > Done.
> > 
> > thank you
> > 
> > > > on 300+, nobody knows the real number
> > > > we need to work around this fact
> > > 
> > > We could just say:
> > > 
> > > "There are hundreds of open source initiatives at the ASF"
> > 
> > yes, good idea
> > 
> > > > "208 committees managing 295 projects"
> > > > we can rephrase to "managing more than 295 projects" and link to the
> > > > projects.html page?
> > > > 
> > > > I'd really love to have index page staying out of technicalities like
> > > > barbarian DOAP term: projects.html page is there to go more in depth
> > > > 
> > > > to me, index requires to be human oriented
> > > 
> > > It also needs to be accurate regarding the completeness of the data.
> > 
> > you know that accurate on projects list is impossible, unless something
> > huge happens (ATR may be that "huge thing"...)
> > 
> > instead of "accurate", I'd say "honest", "transparent"
> > and for sure promote improvement
> 
> I meant we need to be accurate in what we write about the
> *completeness* of the data.
> That is very different from accuracy of the data itself, which we know
> is unlikely ever to be 100% accurate, even if all PMCs have provided
> DOAPs.
> What we do know is that a substantial proportion of PMCs have not
> provided DOAPs.
> That is not clear from the current front page, indeed the opposite is
> implied.
> 
> Whatever you choose to call it, at present the wording is not fully
> transparent, honest or accurate.
> 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Hervé
> > > > 
> > > > Le dimanche 8 juin 2025, 17:58:12 CEST sebb a écrit :
> > > > > 5 special committees are currently included under "open source
> > > > > initiatives".
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm not sure these can be classed as such (and they are not included
> > > > > in the total).
> > > > > I think they should just be dropped: do they play any part in the
> > > > > rest
> > > > > of the site?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also, the 300+ number looks wrong, because the number of 'missing'
> > > > > DOAPs is not shown.
> > > > > If we are going to include these, then the number should be shown.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sebb
> > > > > 
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