> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Copeland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:19 PM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: RE: [Watchdog] Dead? > > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 15:14, Tim O'Brien wrote: > > It is the "invite people to be active" part that interests me. I'm > > not saying I want an activity meter the likes of > Sourceforge, but it > > is polite to our users to give people a sense of activity. > > That's one of the nice things about a GForge-ish project > site; there are all sorts of stat charts built in: > > http://rubyforge.org/project/stats/?group_id=182 > > Also, GForge tots up CVS commits, bugs, forum posts, > releases, and so forth and munges it all into an "activity > percentile". Good times. >
I'm not advocating this for ASF. There is a downside to communicating too much information about activity for an open source project. There is room for meaningful social statistics like Agora, but adding some sort of "Activity" percentage sends the wrong message. A project isn't good or healthy because it is popular and has a larger number of CVS commits. Not disparaging your own use of this tool, of course. Anyway, this is becoming OT: Watchdog status updated, tuning out.. > Yours, > > Tom > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
