On 12/19/2016 08:36 AM, Sharan F wrote: > Hello Everyone > > A big thank you to everyone that has helped or participated in getting > the Committer Diversity Survey out, and also to all the committers that > responded to the survey. It has been really good to be able to collect > this information and see what it tells us about our committer base. > > I've loaded the main data and graphs from the survey onto the Community > Development wiki (see link below) > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 > > > In total we received 765 responses (out of a 5861 committer base at the > time the survey was run) so around a 13% response rate.
It would be useful to pursue Niclas' assertion that most of our registered committers are inactive. I'd think that if we define "inactive" in some measurable way, we could determine some actual numbers around that. Either way, though, given how anti-survey we have been in the past, 13% actually sounds like a pretty good response rate to me. > We also got 111 feedback comments of which 29 did not give their > permission to share or from quote their comments. > > I've categorised all the comments into various themes / topics with the > main ones as follows: > > 1. Suggestions for improvements within the ASF I look forward to seeing these. I hope that we have some things in there that are actionable, and that we can find volunteers to participate in. Most of the conversations that I've had with people that have led diversity efforts in other open source communities answer "what worked?" with "lots and lots of hard work, for a really long time." So, thanks so much for getting this process started again. It's long overdue, and we appreciate your hard work here. > 2. Suggestions for improvements to the survey (or any future ones) > 3. Thanks / positive feedback about the ASF and/or survey > 4. Feedback and ideas around diversity > > Next steps will be: > > * Continue to analyse the information and identify any potential > Community Development related actions > * Start discussion threads on the various themes and topics raised to > see if they will result in additional actions > * Discuss feedback and diversity ideas and if necessary, integrate > into diversity strategy -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
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