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 > -- Cheers, Ian C
