On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 July 2012 16:01, Lewis Cawte <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 29/07/2012 15:45, David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> What are the statistics for volunteer contribution before and after
>>> Gerrit?
>>> Has anyone kept track of such numbers?
>
>> I believe, although I may not be correct, Sumana requested these a while
>> back and has been looking at them... I'm not sure if it covers (new)
>> volunteer contributors or not. I think one thing that if it isn't a positive
>> statistic is that from my point of view is that the volunteer contributors
>> that we're out there in the SVN days and the ones that actually committed
>> regularly have not yet learnt or are not as willing to relearn how to
>> contribute... I know from some small experiences a few that are unhappy or
>> unwilling that they have to relearn things.
>
>
> I was just asking for numbers. Your response looks very like making an
> excuse for bad numbers *before we have the numbers*.
>
> I submit that if we know we have to prepare excuses for bad numbers
> before we even have the numbers, the current process may not have been
> a good idea.
>

I believe some numbers have made it into the Signpost around when the
monthly reports come out.

Paraphrasing from memory, the basic trend has been:
* Overall number of monthly commits is down (this is expected to some
degree due to lack of "followups")
* Number of contributors in labs/gerrit accounts has been increasing, and
hasn't seem to hit a plateau just yet (new accounts every month)

-Chad

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