Not to say that this isn't a good first step, but that is definitely not going to capture a lot of important engagement. At Apache Jena we recently elected an excellent committer who has never made a single commit. Instead we elected him to recognize his fantastic involvement with the community answering questions and helping new users.
I'm not sure what to do about that (measurement-wise) but perhaps as a future move, the base list of committers for a project could be joined against stats from the mailing lists for that project? --- A. Soroka > On Dec 21, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > On 12/21/2016 03:09 AM, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: >> On Tue, December 20, 2016 17:11, Rich Bowen wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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. >> >> Since everything these days is going through LDAP it should be possible to >> get e.g. last login timestamp. Maybe reach out to infra? > > Sure, if that's our definition of "active". Likewise, if "commit" is our > definition of "active", that seems easy too. I tend to think that > "active" is a bit more complex, but either one of those would give us a > good first estimate. > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
