Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-21 Thread Gergo Tisza
Thanks Srishti & DevRel team, that was interesting, and it's great to see that developer retention gets the organizational focus it deserves. Some comments on the document: We currently struggle to keep track of information about new developers > such as project they worked on, their contact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-20 Thread Lodewijk
Just trying to understand: this is the percentage change of a percentage? Or the percentage change of the absolute retention? (I would be particularly interested in the latter, as the former could be muddied by successful efforts to have more people make a first contribution) Lodewijk On Wed,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-20 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, I am very happy to see that the New Developers Quarterly report is raising some interest. Yes, there are important problems of sustainability in our developer community that deserve attention. On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Fæ wrote: > Suggestion, throw away the current

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread James Salsman
Brian Wolff wrote: > [The developer retention rate is] now 5%, but this time last year it was 12%. It's currently 8% per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10#Key_findings And the time series is the third graph under

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread Fæ
On 18 October 2017 at 18:32, Brian Wolff wrote: > Fae wrote: >>Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention >>percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless >>potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can >>sign-up.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread Brian Wolff
Fae wrote: >Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention >percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless >potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can >sign-up. Could that be corrected? My understanding is that this means that the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread Brian Wolff
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly > Report that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers > metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned