On 14/05/2007, at 3:05 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
I want to report on activity within projects. This is what the board really want, rather than the board report's usual bits of activity. I want it to be immediate rather than a quarterly thing.
I think both are of value. At the end of the day, you're looking for an indication that the project is healthy and is continually doing the things that projects should do (properly approved releases, voting in new committers, dealing with issues). So having those over a period of time remains valuable (and if accurate, serves as a good place to keep a record of those activities). But giving the chair the opportunity to talk about how they see the project going hopefully gives better insight to the real health of the project too.
Pondering... Brett's examples below are meta information, whereas I'm talking about instance data I think. Anyway; I'm in favour of Brett's below, but also interested in what people think about widening the scope of this to be a whole series of scripts (or whatever) to measure the noise of Apache.
Yep, I think the other stuff is of great value - though probably more so to the developer communities in understanding the dynamics of their contributors and users better, and to be able to better serve them and to grow.
I've no objection to sharing a lab or lab(s) around this. Though as the ideas converge, they probably start to form the basis of a project proposal anyway.
All dependant on available time, though. It's now a full year since I put together MBoxer and I'm still trying to get back to it (I'll give it another month and then vote for idling it).
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