RE: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread Danny Angus
Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its progress. d. This makes me think of all the projects on SourceForge that shoot up high into the

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread Peter Donald
On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:17, Danny Angus wrote: Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its progress. Agreed - even worse. Sometimes after these

RE: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread Alef Arendsen
I don't really think project activity can be calculated from code changes alone. I would say project activity should cover the complete process of setting up requirements for the software, designing, implementing, testing and using it. If Jakarta would have a structured software development

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Agreed! Danny Angus wrote: Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its progress. d. This makes me think of all the projects on SourceForge

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread costinm
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Peter Donald wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:17, Danny Angus wrote: Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its progress.

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread dion
: Project Activity From: Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:17, Danny Angus wrote: Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put in by users commiters and non-commiters that shapes the product and maps its

[EGO] Re: Project Activity

2002-05-13 Thread dion
General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Project Activity On Mon, 13 May 2002, Peter Donald wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 20:17, Danny Angus wrote: Sometimes lists are where the activity is, commits alone don't credit the essential design and planning effort put

Project Activity

2002-05-11 Thread dion
Back in mid March there was a discussion around the jakarta overview ( http://jakarta.apache.org/site/overview.html ) and what / wasn't a good measure of project activity. My comment back then was commits on a project are a good indicator. So anyway, I've added this reporting into the cvs

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-11 Thread Henri Yandell
I think this might be what you mean by file activity, but might not. Aren't there two types of project activity. Developer activity and user activity. Having no developer activity is not a bad sign if there is high user activity, ie) sign of a solid/stable piece of code. Now I don't know of any

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I think that's pretty cool functionality. I don't agree with your way of judging project activity.. Thats like trying to put a metric on how blue the sky is today. I'm sure you could but what of the day where your metric says its grey but I'm looking up and seeing blue (perhaps because a grey

Re: Project Activity

2002-05-11 Thread Leo Simons
lines today? :D - Leo On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 17:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in mid March there was a discussion around the jakarta overview ( http://jakarta.apache.org/site/overview.html ) and what / wasn't a good measure of project activity. My comment back then was commits on a project