Brett Porter wrote: > Hi, > > (I'm open to suggestions for a better name) > > I'd like to request a lab for an mbox analysis tool. It was something I > put together while learning webwork to see how frequently certain people > were contributing to the users list, as we were trying to identify > potential documentation committers. The grand plan would be to be able > to get a good view of what traffic on the mailing list looks like (both > in terms of people, and content). > > There is obviously some alignment with Agora (though no real overlap at > this point - I took a look at Agora before I started playing with this > for a few days back in June to see what I could borrow :) > > Please find attached a DOAP for voting on. Thanks!
Brett, I think you got plenty of support for your lab request. So go ahead and create your lab. One pray: please write in your readme file that the lab will work hard to avoid confusing quantity with quality and that we are fully aware of the potential harm created in establishing metrics and rankings in a open development environment, but we want to research into ways that more signal can be emerged minimizing the harmful impact. This is a general principle that certainly applies to all labs that have to deal with social information management, but let's go one little step at a time for now. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
