On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
>
>> On 30/06/12 17:04, Nick Burch wrote:
>>> On 28/06/12 15:12, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>> Our quarterly report is due soon for July.
>>>>
>>>> I put a draft on the wiki:  http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/July2012
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if there are any additions or changes you want to see.
>>>
>>> Something that's normally good to put in is the date/time since the last
>>> adding of a committer, and since the last release.
>>>
>>> When I was POI PMC chair, I often used to put in a little bit on mailing
>>> list traffic (up/down/roughly stable), and something about issues (new
>>> issues count up/down/stable, and fix rate up/down/stable). This can help
>>> give a sense of how the community is doing.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on if we want to include this or not? Only we're 
>> very close to needing to sign off on the report, so it'd be good to get it 
>> in if we're going to!
>
> It is worth commenting on the decrease in activity in both commits and 
> mailing list activity. This is often a sign of a project that is not creating 
> a community.
>
> But if not then it will very likely need to be discussed in three months on 
> the next report. Unless the trends are reversed... and there is some progress 
> to report.
>
> I think community is the issue that needs to be addressed for graduation and 
> that is clear in the report.

off the wall suggestion... can the ODFToolkit be made some sort of
extension/adjunct to AOO?
Would that increase the community?  Can it ride on the shirt tails of AOO?

I realise the aims of AOO are quite different but there are also some
overlaps in the role of producer/consumer ODF documents.

>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Nick
>



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Cheers,

Ian C

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