Thanks Russell for putting this together! I can see how this would be helpful, for example in deciding when to cut the next release or preparing the quarterly project reports. It would be even better if it leads to concrete follow-ups, especially around reviews across the repos. Could we add the dashboard to the community sync agenda tomorrow and spend a few minutes on it?
Thanks, Hongyue PS: This email ended up in my gmail spam folder :( On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 7:36 AM Russell Spitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > At CoC I was impressed by Patrick's work on Cassandra Community health > dashboard - https://pmcfadin.github.io/cassandra-project-health/index.html > <https://pmcfadin.github.io/cassandra-project-health/index.html> and I > wanted one for Iceberg. > > So I built one here > https://www.russellspitzer.com/iceberg-community-health/index.html > > I'm concerned about our ability to keep up with contributions and track > whether folks are actually able to get > involved in the community as well as how we shape up against other > communities. I don't have any prescriptions yet, > but I am worried about the decline in "First to Second" Contributors > ecosystem wide but especially in the Java repo. > > Feel free to mess around with the data and I'm open to any suggestions. > The site is statically generated and based > on information pulled into the GitHub repository from which the site is > launched. > > > Everything is pretty viciously vibe-coded; I mostly discussed design and > implementation details without checking the actual code output. > > https://github.com/RussellSpitzer/iceberg-community-health >
