On 12/21/2016 08:32 AM, A. Soroka wrote: > 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? >
Yes, this was my point exactly. Thanks for articulating. Probably would need to combine mlist + commit + tickets + ... other stuff? Some communities have active contributors who spend their time answering questions on IRC, G+, Facebook, StackOverflow, etc. --Rich > --- > 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 > -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
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