On 07/02/2012 05:00 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Qingye Jiang (John) wrote: >> I would like to let you know that I have just finished an analysis on >> the 4 open source projects (OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, >> CloudStack) from a community activity perspective. The analysis report >> could be found from my personal blog at http://www.qyjohn.net/?p=2233 >> (with a lot of figures). > > Nice work! > > However I still think it's a bit difficult/unfair to compare raw email > numbers like this... For example, the cloudstack-dev mailing-list is > used for patches and receives automated emails from "review requests" > and comments on reviews.apache.org, whereas the openstack ML (and I > suspect the other projects as well) only use lists for discussions, and > use other tools for patches and reviews. > > So in the end it's interesting to look at trends within a given project > and on a given setup, but not so much to compare between projects with > very different setups.
Jiang, I agree with Thierry that your report is a great start and that it would be useful to exclude from the cloudstack-dev mailing list patch and review request emails. Those numbers significantly skew the analysis from a mailing list threads/mails/users sense. One other thing I'd mention is that although you focus on the marketing and community-focused impacts in your conclusion for why certain projects have seemed to gain traction versus others, I would add that the choice of underlying technology -- and likewise the project contributor's choice to be agnostic or ideological regarding certain infrastructure pieces -- may be just as big a contributing factor to the growth of the developer community of each project. Keep up the great work, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
