Hi All Sorry for the delay in posting this update!
I attended the Growth, Maturity and Decline CHAOSS workgroup meeting last week (15th August). This was my first call so I was planning to listen and learn a bit about what they have been doing and where they currently are. There were 5 of us on the call Sean (who ran the call), Carter and Keanu (who have done some work on Augr) and Aksita from Mozilla. The working group page is here : https://github.com/chaoss/wg-gmd So these are some of the points I picked up: - This workgroup has been defining series of metrics for how to define and measure Growth, Maturity and Decline of open source projects. - The list they have defined so far focuses on 3 areas: Issue Resolution, Code Development and Community Growth. Details of each metric is here: https://github.com/chaoss/metrics/blob/master/2_Growth-Maturity-Decline.md NOTE: that these metrics are still open for discussion and change so if anyone has a comment or would like to suggest a change or comment then that can be done via pull requests. - One area that I think will be very interesting for Kibble is that the CHAOSS group are calling for and accepting known implementations of each of the metrics which they include in their repo, so if we have already implemented some of these metrics as part of Kibble, we can add them to CHAOSS as a example implementation. So this would include some demo code or scripts showing how Kibble calculates the metric. - Another area we talked about was to try and get feedback from real metric users and implementors (so us!). The CHAOSS workgroup is interested in finding out what type of metrics we would like to see as part of the Growth, Maturity and Decline metrics. (One thing that came to my mind was about the Attic – we have one and I’m not sure how many other foundations or projects have one too. Anyway we can see how many projects go to there and how they got there, and how long it took them to get there etc) - The CHAOSS workgroup is keen to interact with Kibble and get any feedback from our community. They suggested that we cross post to their mailing any discussions that we start on our own mailing lists that are related to CHAOSS metrics. (So I will start a separate discussion for that one as we’d need some consensus on that, and it’s a bit lost in here with all the other topics). - We talked about Augr which is a dashboard used to visualise the metrics, they were keen to see if we could send them a list of Apache projects with Git repos that they could import and use as a demo or comparison with what we are getting from Kibble. (So what do people think about that ) The Growth, Maturity and Decline workgroup meeting every couple of weeks so I think their next meeting is 29th August if anyone else wants to join. That’s my update and any feedback welcome. Thanks Sharan
