Petr Kovar regularly makes requests for input for Gnome Quarterly Reports like this one.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2012-February/msg00038.html I looked at some older quarterly reports and I noticed the Membership Team provides some factoid stats snapshots (new members, etc.) and I would like to suggest that the i18n team consider something similar that could (hopefully) be pulled simply from the Damned Lies server. Some possible factoids Total registered teams Total registered team members Total hosted strings/words Total hosted packages Total completed strings/words Langs over some given % complete. Any given snapshot of these is more-or-less just a "death by PowerPoint" slide; however, over time mining the metadata that falls out from maintaining a system like Damned Lies is one of the few ways we have of quantifying our results in some potentially meaningful categories (recruiting localizers and completing strings). Analysis of a time series of such reports can indicate areas that might prompt corrective action (e.g. more active recruitment) in a way that is more than simply anecdotal. You would still want to report milestones reached, new initiatives/capabilities, etc. as is done now and the "stat box" need not be very large. Just a thought for consideration, cjl _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
