+1 all around. This sounds like it would be more interesting on the
ooo-marketing@ list, since it's more about telling the story of "who
helps make AOO". With a project with as many different kinds of end
users as AOO has, accurate stats like these would be good, if you want
to go generate them. Plus, I like numbers. 8-)
The most useful thing about generating them would be showing exactly how
they're generated, with code (if any), and being very clear - as you
suggest - at what the specific numbers mean. Openness in the way you
generate the details is key to ensuring people know exactly what you're
measuring.
- Shane
P.S. Is there already a chart of auto-upgrade "downloads" anywhere?
Just curious.
On 10/19/2012 11:38 AM, jan iversen wrote:
I think your idea of filtering out account that actually contributed is a
wise thing, especially because our product has many end-users that want to
be informed but do not contribute.
As a developer I do not care, but thinking of some of the ongoing
discussions in other forums (like: nearly nobody contributes to AOO anymore
because Apache rules makes it far to difficult and restrictive), makes it
worth while to publish a figure on our web, especially a figure saying e.g.
"during the last year we had xxx active contributors and xx active
committers".
jan.
On 19 October 2012 17:28, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
I recently saw another open source project claim that they had over
3000 contributors. They derived this estimate by looking at the
number of user accounts they had in their wiki.
That is quite clever, I thought. Since we use the same wiki software,
I thought I'd check this metric for us. Our wiki says we have over
58,000 user accounts.
I know we're doing well, but would it really make sense to claim that
we have over 58,000 contributors? I don't think so.
I suppose we could look only at accounts where the person has actually
contributed edits, or even recent edits. (MediaWiki is a well-known
target of registration spam). Although the other project did not seem
to filter out inactive or unused accounts, I think the metrics are
meaningless unless we do that.
What do you think? Or do we even care?
-Rob
