On 9 January 2012 14:42, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the whole formality of project state should be replaced with a > live activity widget like can be seen on other sites. Commit activity > and such. If someone were thinking of contributing to a project, the > incentive would be removed or seriously diminished by a dead/sleepy > project state.
I think the activity widget could be counter-productive. Component activity tends to go in phases; there may be several weeks with no activity and then a flurry. Also commits are only a small part of the health of a component. Activity monitors can work well for frequently occuring activities, but component health is much more complicated. To take a simple example, try measuring committer productivity by SVN commits. Some committers commit large chunks, some commit per file; and that may vary for a committer. Some commits are not "productive" - e.g. whitespace fixes, reverts of a bad commit. Some commits represent lots of investigation and skill, some may be much simpler. > Gary > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 6:59, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Jelly did not see any activity for nearly two years: >> http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?path=%2Fcommons%2Fproper%2Fjelly >> >> Last release was in 01.2010. >> >> We had already discussion on a process to move proper components into >> another state, be it "dormant" or "inactive". I would like to >> resurrect this discussion. We have had a lots of discussion in the >> past: somebody wanted to progress with somehting, like graduating >> graph or using Java 5 in a component and the response sometimes was we >> have to less man power at Commons. >> >> Therefore I think we need to tell the people for which components they >> can expect releases and for which ones not. Otherwise outsiders may >> look at a huge bunch of components and see only little activity. >> Wouldn't it be better instead to show only a handful components which >> are actively developed? >> >> Looking at Jelly, it is orphaned. No releases, no releases to be >> expected. I would like to move it to dormant or to a new transition >> state, if people wish so, maybe called "orphaned" or "inactive" or >> whatever. >> >> What are your thoughts? >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
